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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 16 0 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 10 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 10 0 Browse Search
Margaret Fuller, Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (ed. W. H. Channing) 10 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 6 0 Browse Search
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, The Passing of the Armies: The Last Campaign of the Armies. 6 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 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 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 6. (ed. Frank Moore) 4 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
ta-net. A clapping instrument, composed of two little saucer-shaped disks held in the hand and beaten with the middle finger, generally as an accompaniment to the dancing of the player. These were used by the virgins in the ancient hymns to Diana. They make a noise like castanets. Hermippus. Strikes with nimble hand The well-gilt, brazen-sounding castanets. Song to Diana, quoted by DICAeARCHUS. The Phaaeacians, in Homer, had a dance in which their figures were accompanied bDiana, quoted by DICAeARCHUS. The Phaaeacians, in Homer, had a dance in which their figures were accompanied by the bystanders, who made a clapping noise with their forefingers. — ATHENAeUS. The crotala, or wooden clappers, were common in Egyptian musical processions, as were also clapping of hands, cymbals, tambourines, and tam-tams. The little cymbals played with the finger and thumb in the manner of castanets are shown in the paintings of Herculaneum, and are used in the Almch dance of modern Egypt. The modern bones, which give so much vivacity to the negro minstrelsy, especially the facti
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
ted on the island of Pharos, harbor of Alexandria. It was built by the orders of Ptolemy Soter, by the architect Sostratus, and finished under Ptolemy Philadelphus, 280 B. C. The wonderful energy of Alexander's mind seems to have comprehended all at a glance. He visited the little town of Rhacotis, saw his superb city as by a dream of enchantment, his Macedonian mantle covering the ground between the river and Lake Mareotis. He gave his orders to Dinocrates, the architect of the temple of Diana at Ephesus, settled the main details of the plan, and never saw the place again. The Pharos was 450 feet high, and the light was visible at a distance of 42 miles (300 stadia, Josephus). It was built of white marble, and cost 800 talents, $825,500, if the talents were Attic. It was formed in several stories, decreasing in dimensions towards the top, where fires were lighted in cressets. The ground-plan was hexagonal, the sides alternately concave and convex; each a stadium in length; th