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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 273 (search)
t Drama. The second act is about to open upon us. The pride and flower of our youth are in arms. Hostile camps are gathering their forces. Wild, ungovernable, and savage men are openly and stealthily armed with terrible weapons. Hatreds are cast abroad and sown in fierce hearts. Denunciation and proscription are uttered in under tones and with ominous threats of mischief. Soon we shall hear the clash of arms. What then? Read the wars of the Roses; read the marches and the raids of Cromwell; the ravages of the Palatinate; the fusilades of Lyons. Read, at random, any page that records the rage, the demonism, the hellish passion of civil war, and fancy the sack of cities, the brutal and indiscriminate murder of old and young of either sex, the rape and rapine, the conflagration, the shriek of surprised families, the midnight flight of mothers and children tracking their way with bleeding feet — the mourning, the desolation, the despair which are all painted in such horrid color
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), D. (search)
ed in which the precedent portion is not merely a flange on the colter, but is a regular moldboard plow of small proportions, higher than and in front of the main plow. This is known in Ohio as the Michigan double-plow, and is an efficient implement requiring four horses. 2. The double-plow, having two plows to one stock, or two stocks framed together so as to have but one pair of handles and be operated by one man, is mentioned by Walter Blythe, who wrote during the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. See gang-plow. English double-plow. Doub′ler. 1. (Electricity.) An instrument to increase the least conceivable quantity of electricity by continually doubling it, until it becomes perceptible upon a common electrometer or is made visible in sparks. It was first invented by Bennet, improved by Darwin, and afterwards by Nicholson. See Journal of the telegraph, Vol. VI., No. 1, December 2, 1872. 2. (Distilling.) A part of the still apparatus, or an appendage to a
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), I. (search)
t possessed plenty of wood, and with whom the production of iron was fast becoming a monopoly, urged the charcoal-burners to destroy the works of Dudley, which was done. Dudley's patent was granted for thirty-one years, which would bring it to 1650, the time of the Protectorate, when England had a ruler fit to succeed Queen Bess. The celebrated statute of King James, limiting the duration of patents to fourteen years, was passed in 1624. From the circumstance that Dudley petitioned Oliver Cromwell and Council for a renewal of the term, two things are evident: one, that he had pursued the scheme and anticipated or had achieved success; the other, that the limitation of his patent from thirty-one to fourteen years had not been enforced or had been revoked. Dudley charges that the extension of his term was refused by the influence of favorites of the Protector, who wished to share in his profits, and on his refusal defeated his application for extension. It is likely that Dudle
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
a matchrope and by clock-work. One was successful, and made a breach of 200 feet in the bridge, doing immense damage in the vicinity September 30, 1628, the English employed floating tin caissons of powder against the French at Rochelle. One exploded against a vessel without seriously damaging it. The others were intercepted. In the afternoon come the German, Dr. Knuffler, to discourse with us about his engine to blow up ships. We doubted not the matter of fact, it being tried in Cromwell's time, but the safety of carrying them in ships.—Pepys's Diary, 1662. In 1688 an immense floating bomb was prepared by the French against the port of Algiers, but was not used. In 1693-95 similar contrivances were used by the English in besieging St. Malo, Dieppe, and Dunkirk, without serious damage. In 1770 the Russians burned the Turkish fleet in the port of Tchesme, and destroyed the fortifications by the shock of the explosion. In 1804 the loaded catamarans of Fulton were
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 10: (search)
tion of George Livermore. Still groan the suffering millions in their chains; Still is the arm of the oppressor strong; Still Liberty doth bleed at all her veins; And few are they who side not with the wrong: Consider, then, your work as just begun, Until the last decisive act be done. William Lloyd Garrison. If any man thinks that the interest of these nations and the interest of Christianity are two separate and distinct things, I wish my soul may never enter into his secret.--Oliver Cromwell. Mr. Sumner steadily availed himself of every opportunity to alleviate human suffering, and to promote the cause of freedom. As the needle to the pole, his eye turned to the tear of sorrow. On the twenty-fifth day of August, 1852, he made a touching appeal in the Senate on behalf of the widow of the accomplished landscape-gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, who was lost in his noble efforts to save the passengers of the ill-fated steamer Henry Clay, burned on the Hudson River on the t
Elias Nason, The Life and Times of Charles Sumner: His Boyhood, Education and Public Career., Chapter 16: (search)
to cultivate the other. Strong in its own mighty stature, filled with all the fulness of a new life, and covered with a panoply of renown, it will confess that no dominion is of value which does not contribute to human happiness. Born in this latter day, and the child of its own struggles, without ancestral claims, but heir of all the ages, it will stand forth to assert the dignity of man; and, wherever any of the human family is to be succored, there its voice will reach, as the voice of Cromwell reached across France even to the persecuted mountaineers of the Alps. Such will be this republic,--upstart among the nations; ay, as the steam-engine, the telegraph, and chloroform are upstart. Comforter and helper like these, it can know no bounds to its empire over a willing world. But the first stage is the death of slavery. The following tribute to Mr. Sumner for this great effort appeared in The national Era. Sumner's gerat speech. Immortal utterance of a noble mind, Taske
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Book 1: he keepeth the sheep. (search)
vorite books, of an historical character, writes a daughter, were Rollin's Ancient history, Josephus's Works, Napoleon and his Marshals, and the Life of Oliver Cromwell. Of religious books: Baxter's Saints' Rest, (in speaking of this work, at one time, he said he could not see how any person could read it through carefully wn who hears. Why should we start, and fear to die. With songs and honors sounding loud. Ah, lovely appearance of death. He was a great admirer of Oliver Cromwell. Of colored heroes, Nat Turner and Cinques stood first in his esteem. How often, writes a daughter, have I heard him speak in admiration of Cinques' characan, living or dead; his religious enthusiasm and sense of duty (exaggerated and false though it was) were yet earnest and sincere, and not excelled by that of Oliver Cromwell or any of his followers; while no danger could for a moment alarm or disturb him. Though doubtless his whole nature was subject to, and almost constantly, fo
James Redpath, The Public Life of Captain John Brown, Chapter 3: the man. (search)
vorite books, of an historical character, writes a daughter, were Rollin's Ancient history, Josephus's Works, Napoleon and his Marshals, and the Life of Oliver Cromwell. Of religious books: Baxter's Saints' Rest, (in speaking of this work, at one time, he said he could not see how any person could read it through carefully wn who hears. Why should we start, and fear to die. With songs and honors sounding loud. Ah, lovely appearance of death. He was a great admirer of Oliver Cromwell. Of colored heroes, Nat Turner and Cinques stood first in his esteem. How often, writes a daughter, have I heard him speak in admiration of Cinques' characan, living or dead; his religious enthusiasm and sense of duty (exaggerated and false though it was) were yet earnest and sincere, and not excelled by that of Oliver Cromwell or any of his followers; while no danger could for a moment alarm or disturb him. Though doubtless his whole nature was subject to, and almost constantly, fo
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Chapter 7: the man of action (search)
uld produce a text to fit a political emergency with such startling felicity as Garrison. Take for example, the text provided by him for Wendell Phillips's speech on the Sunday morning following Lincoln's call for troops in 1861. Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me in proclaiming liberty everyone to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine. I doubt whether Cromwell or Milton could have rivaled Garrison in this field of quotation; and the power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. From his boyhood upward Garrison's mind was soaked in the Bible and in no other book. His Causes are all drawn from the Bible, and most of them may be traced to the phrases and thoughts of Christ, as for instance Peace (Peace I give unto you), Perfectionism (Be ye therefore perfect), Non-resistance (Resist not evil), Anti-sabbata
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison, Index (search)
ard, 251. Colonization Society of 1830, 63 ff.; a sham reform, 63; destroyed by G., 65, 66; 244. Compromise of 1850, 177, 258. Constitution of U. S., Slavery and, 13, 15, 16, 140ff., 168ff., 172, 173; publicly burned by G., 174. Constitutional Convention (1787), 9, 13. Cooper Union, Emerson's speech at, 234 ff. Copley, Josiah, quoted, 57. Cottage Bible, the, 76. Crandall, Prudence, case of, 70 if., indicted and convicted, 72, 73; 80, 106. Crandall, Reuben, Io6. Cromwell, Oliver, 165. Daizwin, Charles, quoted, 252. disunion, effect of threat of, 257, 258. Douglas, Stephen A., 140, 241. Douglass, Frederick, in Boston, 19, 20 and n., 21; at Rynders Mob meeting, 215, 216, 217; 108, 210. Dresser, Amos, flogging of, 75f. Emancipation, Immediate, G. the apostle of, 47; genesis of, 47, 48; 238. Emancipator, the, quoted, 148-150. Emerson, Edward W., quotes, 231. Emerson, R. W., on the relations of North and South, 18; his Phi Beta Kappa address (18
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