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HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), S. (search)
the stern, which was exposed when the shutters were lowered These shutters were supported by chains, and formed chutes. Stone′ware. A grade of ceramic ware of great hardness and value. The stoneware of London is made of pipe-clay from Dorsetshire and Devonshire, calcined and ground flint from Staffordshire, and sand from Woolwich and Charlton. The dry clay is pulverized and sifted. The ingredients are compounded in different proportions, according to the fineness of the ware, its sizf enduring a very high degree of heat without fusion, well knowing that the hardness of the ware depended upon the high firing to which it had been subjected. For this purpose, rejecting the common clays of his neighborhood, he sent as far as Dorsetshire and Devonshire for the whiter and purer pipe-clays of those counties. For the silicious ingredient of his composition, he made choice of chalkflints calcined and ground to powder. It might be supposed that white sand would have answered hi
James Russell Lowell, Among my books, Wordsworth. (search)
he prescient muse guided the hand of Raisley Calvert while he wrote the poet's name in his will for a legacy of £ 900. By the death of Calvert, in 1795, this timely help came to Wordsworth at the turning-point of his life, and made it honest for him to write poems that will never die, instead of theatrical critiques as ephemeral as play-bills, or leaders that led only to oblivion. In the autumn of 1795 Wordsworth and his sister took up their abode at Racedown Lodge, near Crewkerne, in Dorsetshire. Here nearly two years were passed, chiefly in the study of poetry, and Wordsworth to some extent recovered from the fierce disappointment of his political dreams, and regained that equable tenor of mind which alone is consistent with a healthy productiveness. Here Coleridge, who had contrived to see something more in the Descriptive Sketches than the public had discovered there, first made his acquaintance. The sympathy and appreciation of an intellect like Coleridge's supplied him wi
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
f June the Arbella arrived at Salem, the Jewell on the 13th, and several other vessels during the first week in July. On the 8th of July Winthrop records in his journal: We kept a day of thanksgiving in all the plantations, all the whole fleet being safely come to their port. The Mary & John, of 400 tons, Capt. Squeb, master, sailed from Plymouth March 20, 1629-30, bearing the assistants Edward Rossiter and Roger Ludlow, and about 140 others, godly families and people from Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, accompanied by two ministers, Revs. John Warham and John Maverick. On the 30th of May, when we came to Nantasket, Now Hull. says Capt. Roger Clap, A young man of twenty-one years, who came out of Plymouth, in Devon. one of her passengers, in his memoirs, Capt. Squeb would not bring us into Charles River, Wood's N. E. Prospect, 1634, gives Mishaum, Mishaumut—Charlestowne, and the names of Rivers of note in the following order: Saugus, Mistick, Mishaum, Naponset,
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., Index. (search)
nd dust, cost of, 137. Disaffection throughout English realm, 9. Dispersion of the settlers, 15. Division in the church at Watertown, 24. Dix, Jonas, school-master, 95, 97, 100, 101, 103. Domestic goods, only one shop where sold in Boston, 131. Dorchester settled by the western men, 15; why so named, 14 n. 2; 22, 36, 40. Dorchester Company, the new: grants of land to, 9; solicits and obtains a royal charter, 10. Dorchester fields, first landing in Watertown, 14. Dorsetshire, colonists from, 13. Double speeder invented by Paul Moody, 131. Draft from the militia, 102. Driftway (the), now Gore St., 51. Drinking of healths abolished, 33. Dudley, Thomas, chosen Deputy-Governor Mass. Bay Co., 12; letter to the Countess of Lincoln, 14-16; 24. Dummer, Jeremie, goldsmith, of Boston, 39. Dummer, Richard, owner of Oldham Farm, 39. Dunton, John, his ramble to Natick, 69. Dutch: fort on the Connecticut, 35; plantation on Hudson's River called N
The Daily Dispatch: December 8, 1860., [Electronic resource], Stupidity of lobsters. (search)
Stupidity of lobsters. --Lobsters, says Dr. Buckland, if left on the rocks, never go back to the water of their own accord; they wait till it comes to them. This peculiarity was observed after a landslide on the coast of Dorsetshire, England, which by its great weight forced up a portion of the bottom of the sea. On this suddenly elevated bit of ground there happened to be several lobsters, who doubtless thought the low tide had taken place with uncommon celerity, and that it would return again. Anyhow, the foolish creatures waited for the tide to come up and cover them. Of course it never did come up again; they remained in their places and died there, although the water was in many instances only a few feet from their noses. They had not the sense to tumble into it and save their lives.
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
Right or wrong? When it became known, in the quiet country town of Pyneton, in Dorsetshire, that young Mr. Frederick Blount was actually engaged to be married to Lina Hausmann, the excitement amongst its most select circle was very considerable indeed — for my story begins nearly twenty years ago, and at that time Pyneton did boast a select circle, consisting chiefly of maiden and widow ladies of good family, all more or less "county people" originally, who, having abundant leisure, kept a sharp eye upon their local society, and protested strongly against any admixture of a less aristocratic element, or any concession to the upsetting and levelling tendencies they lamented to observe in the age. Therefore, when Mrs. Tracy, raising both hands over her cup of tea, broke out; "Good Heavens! to think of a scion of Dictate coming down to a low foreign artist," the circle around her foot this so be a burst of natural indignation only commensurate with the occasion, and responded to i
The Daily Dispatch: August 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Elevation of Lord John Russell to the British Peerage. (search)
Elevation of Lord John Russell to the British Peerage. --The title of Lord John Russell, who has just been elevated to the British House of Peers, will be Earl Russell, of Kingston Russell, in the county of Dorset, and Viscount Amberley, of Amberley, in the county of Gloucester, and of Ardsalla, in the county of Meath. The family of which he is one of the most illustrious members has taken an active share in the political history of England since the Reformation. Lord John is the third son of the Duke of Bedford, last but one preceding, and was born on the 18th of Aug., 1792. At half past 4 P. M., on the 30th ult., the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the woolsack, and Lord John Russell was presented to the House. He was introduced by Earl Granville and the Earl of Strafford, attired, as he also was, in Earl's robes, proceeded, as they entered the House, by Sir A, Clifford, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.; Sir C. Young, Garter King-at-Arms, and Lord Willoughley D'Er
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], Wanted. (search)
his mind the quarrel with America "had been anything but satisfactorily settled because the surrender of Messrs. Mason, and Slidell had been unattended by an apology for the outrage committed on the British or by the slightest compensation to the victims themselves." The noble barrister deeply regretted that the "doctrines of international law should have been scouted and repudiated by Mr. Seward on the part of the American Cabinet." In the House of Commons, the Hon. Mr. Portman, of Dorsetshire, moved the Address, and in the course of it deprecated the existing feeling in the United States. Mr. Western Wood, of London, said that "the redress for the insult to the British flag had not been conceded as promptly as was consistent with the character of this country, and, he would add, with the character and dignity of the United States." Mr. Disraell endorsed the action of his Government regarding the Trent affair, and, in conclusion, peremptorily insisted upon the immediate product
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