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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), M. (search)
. The borders of the Mediterranean are defined; the Iberi and Celtae are known; the pillars of Hercules on the west and the Caspian on the cast mark the longitudinal extent; back of Asia Minor is a gher states that Necho commanded the Phoenicians to make their return to Egypt by the pillars of Hercules. Strabo, while discrediting the accounts of circumnavigations previously said to have been accconsulted by the captain, and not kept in a binnacle like the Chinese and the modern needle. Hercules, the symbol of Phoenician enterprise, in his colossal statue at Tarentum, referred to by Pliny, fabled to have received from Apollo, and in it he floated his polarized needle. The name of Hercules is given to the stone magnes. The needle is probably the arrow of Abaris. This supposition addd then so as to make one or more convolutions like the modern French horn. Tyrrhenus, son of Hercules, it is said, first employed a sea-shell, perforated at the smaller end, as an instrument of mus
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
head See also Henderson's patent. April 5, 1870, No. 101, 617. In Root's engine, August 7, 1866, No. 56,993, the piston is attached to an elongated trunk extending through both heads of the cylinder. The pitman passing through the trunk is attached to the end thereof most remote from the crank-shaft, and this end works in guides secured to the cylinder-head Root's trunk-engine. The double-trunk engines constructed by John Penn and Sons, Greenwich, England, for the English iron-clad Hercules, are said to be the largest pair of screw engines ever built. There are two cylinders, each 127 inches in diameter, by 4 feet 6 inches length of stroke of piston; the diameter of the trunks is 47 inches, whose area, being deducted, gives the pistons an effective diameter of 118 inches. Kaylor's trunnion-lathe. These engines are intended to run 60 revolutions per minute, consequently the two pistons pass through a volume of 84,600 cubic feet per minute; they are to be supplied with st
Emilio, Luis F., History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry , 1863-1865, Roster of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Infantry. (search)
ounded 20 Feb 64 Olustee, Fla. $50. Hardy, Charles Corpl 20, mar.; laborer; Philadelphia. 18 Feb 63; died pris. 18 Mch 65 ——. Captd 18 Jly 63 Ft. Wagner. $50. Harris, John C. 20, sin.; farmer; Sheffield. 12 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. $325. Harrison, William Henry 36, mar.; farmer; Philadelphia. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. $50. Hazard, Austin 32, —— —— Woodstock, Vt. 24 Dec 63; 20 Aug 65. —— Hazard, Solomon 22, sin.; farmer; W. Chester, Pa. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded —— 63 ——. $50. Hercules, Lewis 21, sin.; farmer; W. Chester, Pa. 9 Mch 63; died 24 Apl. 64 Jacksonville, Fla. Pneumonia. $50. Hight, James 21, sin.; teamster; Philadelphia. 18 Feb 63; deserted 14 Nov 63 from furlough. $50. Hill, William 19, mar.; teamster; Philadelphia. 25 Feb 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded —— 63 ——. $50. Hoose, Edward 21, sin.; farmer; Dalton. 4 Dec 63; 20 Aug. 65. $325. Howard, James 19, sin.; farmer; Philadelphia. 9 Mch 63; 20 Aug 65. Wounded accidentally by him
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 5: Lowell (search)
cussions in regard to a name were rather droll. A. [Alcott], whose orbit never, even by chance, intersects the plane of the modern earth, proposed that we should call ourselves Olympians. Upon this I suggested to W. H. C. [Channing] who sat next to me, (and who seemed unconscious that I was not perfectly serious,) that, as the Club was composed chiefly of Apostles of the Newness, and as we hoped to aid in crushing some monsters, we should call ourselves (if we must be antique) the Club of Hercules. A. meanwhile, finding that his Olympian tack met with a headwind, wore ship and proposed Pan as perhaps simpler and more accessible to the ordinary intellect. Hereupon, I again modestly suggested that, as we were to have a cafi annexed, or to annex ourselves to a caf6, the name Coffee-pot would be apter than Pan, unless we prefixed thereto the distinguishing christen-name of Patty. E. [Emerson] has changed a good deal since his visit to England. He has becomenot at all more worldly-
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 1, Chapter 5: Don Mariano. (search)
Chapter 5: Don Mariano. No one can say whether the Vallejo family-of which Don Mariano is the head-derive their line from Hercules or only from Caesar. Nothing in the way of long descent would be surprising in Don Mariano; even though his race ran up to Adam, like the pedigree made out by heralds for his countryman Charles the Fifth. You ask about the history of California, he remarks; my biography is the history of California. In one sense he is right. Don Mariano's story is that of nearly every Mexican of rank. In olden times (now thirty years ago!) he was the largest holder of land in California. Besides his place at Monterey, the family-seat, he owned a sheep-run on San Benito River, an estate sixty miles long in San Joaquin Valley, a whole county on San Pablo Bay, and many smaller tracts in other parts. High mountain ranges stood within the boundaries of his estate. With an exception here and there, these tracts have passed into the stranger's hands. Springing
Oliver Otis Howard, Autobiography of Oliver Otis Howard, major general , United States army : volume 2, Chapter 48: organization of the freedmen's Bureau and my principles of action (search)
arrival at Dumfries, Va., in his march from Richmond to Washington; for he came on with the troops. He wrote me a friendly letter that very night in which he said: I hardly know whether to congratulate you or not, but of one thing you may rest assured, that you possess my entire confidence, and I cannot imagine that matters that involve the future of 4,000,000 souls could be put in more charitable and more conscientious hands. So far as man can do, I believe you will; but I fear you have Hercules' task. God has limited the power of man, and though in the kindness of your heart you would alleviate all the ills of humanity, it is not in your power to fulfill one tenth part of the expectation of those who formed the Bureau for the Freedmen and Refugees and Abandoned Estates. It is simply impracticable. Yet you can and will do all the good one man may, and that is all you are called on as a man and a Christian to do, and to that extent count on me as a friend and fellow soldier for
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
id to the Anti-Slavery Enterprise. Not in this way can any impression be made on an evil so vast as Slavery—as you will clearly see by an illustration which I shall give. The god Thor, of Scandinavian mythology—whose strength surpassed that of Hercules—was once challenged to drain a simple cup dry. He applied it to his lips, and with superhuman capacity drank, but the water did not recede even from the rim, and at last the god abandoned the effort. The failure of even his extraordinary strengthat the cause is so strong in itself as to bear even the infirmities of its advocates; nor can it require anything beyond that simplicity of treatment and moderation of manner which I desire to cultivate. Its true character is such, that, like Hercules, it will conquer just so soon as it is recognized. My task will be divided under three different heads: first, the Crime against Kansas, in its origin and extent; secondly, the Apologies for the Crime; and, thirdly, the true Remedy. Lxv.<
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xxxi. (search)
rm of activity by which Human Freedom, even in a single case, may be secured. But I desire to say, that such an act—too often accompanied by a pharisaical pretension, in strange contrast with the petty performance—cannot be considered an essential aid to the Anti-Slavery Enterprise. Not in this way can any impression be made on an evil so vast as Slavery—as you will clearly see by an illustration which I shall give. The god Thor, of Scandinavian mythology—whose strength surpassed that of Hercules—was once challenged to drain a simple cup dry. He applied it to his lips, and with superhuman capacity drank, but the water did not recede even from the rim, and at last the god abandoned the effort. The failure of even his extraordinary strength was explained, when he learned that the simple cup had communicated, by an invisible connection, with the whole vast ocean behind, out of which it was perpetually supplied, and which remained absolutely unaffected by the effort. And just so wi
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Lxiv. (search)
le rag or fig-leaf to cover its vileness. And, finally, the True Remedy must be shown. The subject is complex in relations, as it is transcendent in importance; and yet, if I am honored by your attention, I hope to present it clearly in all its parts, while I conduct you to the inevitable conclusion that Kansas must be admitted at once, with her present Constitution, as a State of this Union, and give a new star to the blue field of our National Flag. And here I derive satisfaction from the thought, that the cause is so strong in itself as to bear even the infirmities of its advocates; nor can it require anything beyond that simplicity of treatment and moderation of manner which I desire to cultivate. Its true character is such, that, like Hercules, it will conquer just so soon as it is recognized. My task will be divided under three different heads: first, the Crime against Kansas, in its origin and extent; secondly, the Apologies for the Crime; and, thirdly, the true Remedy.
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Eighth: the war of the Rebellion. (search)
ble woes,—nay, more, which in the instinct of that tyranny through which it ruled, was beating down all safe-guards of human rights, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, security of person, and delivering the whole country to a sway whose vulgarity was second only to its madness —this domineering Slave Oligarchy is dislodged from the National Government, never more to return. Thus far at least has Emancipation prevailed. The greatest slave of all is free. Pillars greater than those of Hercules might fitly mark this progress. IX. Impatient at the feebleness of the short-sighted policy with which we were carrying on the war—during the first year acting simply on the defensive—Defence, did I say? With mortification I utter the word. Rebel conspirators have set upon us, and now besiege the National Government. They besiege it at Washington, where are the President and his Cabinet, with the National archives. They besiege it at Fortress Monroe, on the Atlantic; at St. Lo
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