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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 3 3 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1861., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 2 2 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Index (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 30, 1862., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
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James Redpath, The Roving Editor: or, Talks with Slaves in the Southern States., My third trip. (search)
y one, pay a thousand dollars for him ; he goes off, and fights or sprees, and the first thing you know your thousand dollar's dead! The old man did not think himself that slave labor paid, and believed it would be better for the white men, as well as the negro, if slavery was instantly and everywhere abolished. I was too tired, when I talked with him, to report his remarks stenographically, as I generally do. I regret it now, for his idiom was exceedingly unique and humorous. If Mrs. Partington ever meets him she will have to hide her diminished head forever. Ignorance. The ignorance of both the poor whites and blacks is almost incredible; even to the traveller who has daily and astonishing evidences of it. I have sometimes asked negroes who have lived near a village all their life, if they knew what its population was; and they could not understand what population meant nor — when explained to them — could they answer my question. Like Socrates, they seemed only to kno
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Annual meeting of Southern Historical Society, October 28th and 29th, 1878. (search)
since the war I have been profoundly humiliated by my own lamentable lack of perspicuity and foresight. I have met so many people who saw so clearly beforehand how the conflict must of necessity end, and I did not. It mortifies one's intellectual pride, depresses him with a sense of his own mental inferiority, to be assured by a far-looking seer, Why, I saw how all must end from the beginning. I predicted two years before that Richmond would fall and the Confederacy collapse. I told Mrs. Partington so, and I told Mrs. Grundy so. So, after all was over, said some of my Richmond and other neighbors. It was very unkind not to tell me, I answer them. Why, neighbor! You talked to me many times over war news and prospects, but I can't recall any of these vaticinations. Why, don't you remember I said to you once. Well, that is another humiliation! I don't remember! My memory must leak, and all those prognostications have oozed out. There was another thing a little incompreh
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow 1814-1890 (search)
Shillaber, Benjamin Penhallow 1814-1890 Author (popularly known as Mrs. Partington); born in Portsmouth, N. H., July 12, 1814; educated at Exeter Academy; learned the printer's trade in Dover, N. H., removed to Boston in 1840; and was connected with the Boston Post till 1850; editor of the Pathfinder, and, with Charles G. Halpine, of The carpet bag; returned to the Post in 1853, and remained till 1856, when he became an editor on The Saturday evening gazette, with which he remained ten yea; learned the printer's trade in Dover, N. H., removed to Boston in 1840; and was connected with the Boston Post till 1850; editor of the Pathfinder, and, with Charles G. Halpine, of The carpet bag; returned to the Post in 1853, and remained till 1856, when he became an editor on The Saturday evening gazette, with which he remained ten years. He was author of Rhymes with reasons and without; Life sayings of Mrs. Partington; Partingtonian Patchwork, etc. He died in Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 25, 1890.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
f South Lawrence, the most severe ever recorded in the New England States; over $100,000 worth of property destroyed......July 26, 1890 John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish patriot, born 1844, dies at Hull......Aug. 10, 1890 First annual convention of the lettercarriers of the United States held at Boston; 100 delegates......Aug. 13, 1890 Accident on the Old Colony Railroad near Quincy; twenty killed, thirty-one injured......Aug. 19, 1890 Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber, the creator of Mrs. Partington, born 1814, dies at Chelsea......Nov. 25, 1890 Associate Justice Charles Devens, exAttorney-General of the United States, dies at Boston......Jan. 7, 1891 James Russell Lowell, born 1819, dies at Cambridge......Aug. 12, 1891 Phillips Brooks consecrated bishop of Massachusetts in Trinity Church, Boston......Oct. 14, 1891 James Parton, author, born 1822, dies at Newburyport......Oct. 17, 1891 First world's convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union opens at Boston
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
any event, and diverted aside into a receiver, into which it continues to run till the moment of noting another event, when the intercepting cause is suddenly removed and the stream turned to its original channel. The weight of mercury in the receiver in comparison with the known rate of passage determines the interval between the events. Clepsydra. Professor Airy, Astronomer Royal of England, has applied the clepsydra to communicating motion to telescopes equatorially mounted. Partington's clepsydra is constructed to discharge equal quantities of water in equal times. B is a float on the surface of the water, and E is a weight to counterbalance the weight of the siphon C, and its contained water. The water is discharged at F, the lower end of the long leg of the siphon, and is collected in the box G, which forms the base of the instrument. The Chinese clepsydras are described in the United States Agricultural Report, 1851, plate at the end of the book. The descriptio
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
r chamber if the grain does not require steaming; or it can be cut off entirely by the globe-valve h. The water of condensation is drawn off by the pipe i. Steam fire-en′gine. Mr. Braithwaite's fireengine, used in London, was described in Partington's British Cyclopedia, published in 1833. It is there described as a portable steam-engine, to move the pump-rod, the steam being prepared during the passage of the fire-engine to its destination. See fire-engine. Steam-foun′tain. A jety out of knowledge, although the writer has failed to find an illustration of it. Even the ordinary dictionaries recognize it, and it is described in Hebert's Engineer's Cyclopaedia, London, 1850, Vol. I. p. 109; Francis's Dictionary of Arts ; Partington's Dictionary, 2 vols.; Weale's Dictionary of terms in art The Nott stove was patented in England in 1830, 1831. It is a base-burning illuminated stove, without an internal fuelchamber. The Mott stove is shown at j, Fig. 5917, and had a s
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
had picturesque adventures on the frontier. Two other men, Samuel A. Hammett (1816– 65) of Connecticut and John Ludlum McConnel (1826-62) of Illinois, travelled in the West and South-west and described their experiences in racy volumes. Mrs. Partington, the American Mrs. Malaprop, was created by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814-90) of The Boston Fost and forms the central figure in at least three books, Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington (1854), Partingtonian Patchwork (1873), and Ike aMrs. Partington (1854), Partingtonian Patchwork (1873), and Ike and his friends (1879). Her character and manner of expression may be seen in her chance remarks: I am not so young as I was once, and I don't believe I shall ever be, if I live to the age of Samson, which, heaven knows as well as I do, I don't want to, for I wouldn't be a centurion or an octagon and survive my factories and become idiomatic by any means. But then there is no knowing how a thing will turn out until it takes place, and we shall come to an end some day, though we may never li
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
Jack Downing, 151 Lewis, Mrs., 66 Lewis Carroll. See Dodgson, C. L. Liberator, 189 Liberty Bell, by friends of freedom, the, 174 Library of American biography, the, 117 Library of Southern literature, the, 304 Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed, 118 Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor, The, 152 Life and Adventures, Songs, services and speeches of private Miles O'Reilly, 155 Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, 155 Life and Writings of George Washington, The, 117 Life in the Iron Mills, 372, 392 Life of Bret Harte, 362 n. Life of Gouverneur Morris, the, 117 Life of James Otis, 105 Life of Jesus the Christ, 217 Life of Kennedy, 58 n. Life of Lowell, 250 n., 251 n. Life of Patrick Henry, 105 Life of Thomas Jefferson, 110 Life of Washington, 105 Light of Stars, the, 35 Light'ood fire, the, 330 Lily, the, 175 Lily of the Valley, the, 175 Lincoln, Abraham,
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 7: a summer abroad 1892-1893; aet. 73-74 (search)
d opportunities. That redemption which I seek must be in Thee. There is no progress in the mere sense of ill-desert. I must pass on from it to better effort beyond, self-reproach is negative: woe is me that I was born! Amendment must have positive ground. I wrote some lines in which a bit of sea-weed shining in the sun seemed as an illustration of the light which I hope to gain. September 30. A performance of Jarley's Waxworks in the evening was much enjoyed. Edward Atkinson as Mrs. Partington in my witch hat recited some merry nonsense of Hood's about European travel. October 2. Boston. In the early morning John M. Forbes's yacht, the Wild Duck, hovered around us, hoping to take off his daughter, Mrs. Russell.... Quite a number of us embraced this opportunity with gratitude.... October 3. All seems like a dream. October 7. Newport. I begin my life here with a prayer that the prolongation of my days on earth may be for good to myself and others, that I may not sink
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order, Boston events. (search)
first used in a town meeting, 1691 Paris exhibition opened, Boston well represented, Apr. 1, 1867 Parker Fraternity Hall, on Appleton street, dedicated, Sep. 21, 1873 Hill Reservoir, for Cochituate water, built, 1874 Park Hall, on Boylston street, removed, March, 1851 Garden, Park square, opened for amusements, July 18, 1879 Back Bay, dirt carts commenced filling, Nov. 11, 1878 Parkman, Dr. George remains found at the Medical College, Nov. 30, 1849 Partington, Mrs. witty sayings began to be published, June, 1847 Passports required, to leave the United States, Nov. 27, 1861 Patch, Sam took his last leap at Niagara Falls, Nov. 3, 1829 Paving-stones for roadways began to be used, 1674 £100 appropriation voted for the purpose, 1704 Three-pence fine to gallop over pavement, 1740 Square granite blocks came in use, 1846 Wood, large octagon blocks, are used, 1835 Octagon blocks voted a nuisance, 1840 Removed from C
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