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Fannie A. Beers, Memories: a record of personal exeperience and adventure during four years of war. 6 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 6 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
John Dimitry , A. M., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 10.1, Louisiana (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 4 0 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.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 2 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), C. (search)
Great used a graduated wax candle as a time-keeper, and placed it in a lantern to equalize its consumption by preventing flaring. Splinters of wood saturated with animal fat were used in England by the poor, A. D. 1300. The pith of swamp-rush (Juncus effusus) was subsequently used for a wick, and answered the purpose tolerably, though it conducted the grease slowly, gave a very moderate light, and was easily extinguished by drafts. It is still used there, and is called a rush-light. Diogenes (330 B. C.), who searched in daylight with a lantern for an honest man, was anticipated by three hundred years in the prophecy of Zephaniah, wherein it is declared that Jerusalem shall be searched with candles, and the men that are settled on their lees shall be punished. The candles so frequently referred to in Scripture, generally in metaphor, were no doubt cores of twisted fibers dipped in pitch, wax, or tallow. The candlesticks in their sacred buildings were very rich and ornate, an
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), L. (search)
rose at about 6 P. M. on that night, but it was probably cloudy, or Judas may have suspected that his master would hide in some covert on the mountain. Lanterns are referred to by the Greek authors: — The man who first invented the idea Of walking out by night with a lantern, Was very careful not to burn his fingers. Alexis. So taking out the candle from his lantern. Ibid. A well-lit horn lantern. Eumelus: quoted by ATHENAeUS, A. D. 220. The lanterns of Epictetus and Diogenes will not be soon forgotten. See also candle. Lanterns are referred to by the Roman authors Plautus, Martial, and Pliny; have been disinterred at Herculaneum and Pompeii. In the latter place, one was found in the vestibule of a house alongside a skeleton; the person was evidently trying to escape in the thick darkness of the descending ashes. We read of the use of lanterns in the games of the circus, the sacred games of Greece, in augury, and by the military. In the latter case, the
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), R. (search)
ow the same practice, adopting, however, a different style of tonsure. The Homeric heroes were bearded. The custom of letting the beard grow prevailed until the time of Alexander, when, according to Plutarch, in Lysander, and Athenaeus, the Greeks began to shave, and continued to do so until the time of Justinian. And this custom of shaving the beard originated in the age of Alexander, as Chrysippus tells us in the fourth book of his Treatise on the beautiful and on pleasure. And Diogenes, when he saw some one once whose chin was smooth, said, I am afraid you think you have great ground to accuse nature for having made you a man and not a woman. And at Rhodes there is a law against shaving, but no one minds it. And at Byzantium there is a law against barbers being possessed of razors, but they shave none the less. So says the admirable Chrysippus. — ATHENAeUS. Ctesippus, the fine son of Chabrias, Has ceased to shave himself three times a day. A great man among women,