| | 102 | Author: | Brock: Franklin, Benjamin | Add | | | Title: | A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency / by Benjamin Franklin  | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE is no Science, the Study of which is more useful and
commendable than the Knowledge of the true Interest of one's Country;
and perhaps there is no Kind of Learning more abstruse and intricate,
more difficult to acquire in any Degree of Perfection than This, and
therefore none more generally neglected. Hence it is, that we every Day
find Men in Conversation contending warmly on some Point in Politicks,
which, altho' it may nearly concern them both, neither of them
understand any more than they do each other. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 112 | Author: | Hope, Laura Lee | Add | | | Title: | The Bobbsey Twins; or, Merry Days Indoors and Out | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE Bobbsey twins were very busy that morning. They were all seated around
the dining-room table, making houses and furnishing them. The houses were
made out of pasteboard shoe boxes, and had square holes cut in them for doors,
and other long holes for windows, and had pasteboard chairs and tables, and
bits of dress goods for carpets and rugs, and bits of tissue paper stuck
up to the windows for lace curtains. Three of the houses were long and low,
but Bert had placed his box on one end and divided it into five stories,
and Flossie said it looked exactly like a "department" house in New York. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 114 | Author: | Hume, David | Add | | | Title: | Of the Jealousy of Trade/ by David Hume | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Image of page
347,from David Hume's essay "Of the Jealousy of Trade"
Having endeavoured to remove one species of ill-founded jealousy,
which is so prevalent among commercial nations, it may not be
amiss to mention another, which seems equally groundless. Nothing
is more usual, among states which have made some advances in
commerce, than to look on the progress of their neighbours with a
suspicious eye, to consider all trading states as their rivals,
and to suppose that it is impossible for any of them to flourish,
but at their expence. In opposition to this narrow and malignant
opinion, I will venture to assert, that the encrease of riches
and commerce in any one nation, instead of hurting, commonly
promotes the riches and commerce of all its neighbours; and that
a state can scarcely carry its trade and industry very far, where
all the surrounding states are buried in ignorance, sloth, and
barbarism. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 116 | Author: | Irving, Washington | Add | | | Title: | A Tour on the Prairies. | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HAVING, since my return to the United States, made a wide and varied tour,
for the gratification of my curiosity, it has been supposed that I did it
for the purpose of writing a book; and it has more than once been intimated
in the papers, that such a work was actually in the press, containing scenes
and sketches of the Far West. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 117 | Author: | Jackson, Helen Hunt | Add | | | Title: | Ramona | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was sheep-shearing time in Southern California, but sheep-shearing was
late at the Señora Moreno's. The Fates had seemed to combine to put
it off. In the first place, Felipe Moreno had been ill. He was the Señora's
eldest son, and since his father's death had been at the head of his mother's
house. Without him, nothing could be done on the ranch, the Señora
thought. It had been always, "Ask Señor Felipe," "Go to Señor
Felipe," "Señor Felipe will attend to it," ever since Felipe had had
the dawning of a beard on his handsome face. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | Author: | James, Henry | Add | | | Title: | The Turn of the Screw | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except
the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house,
a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till
somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such
a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of
an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an
appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with
his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate
his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself,
before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him.
It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later
in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call
attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I
saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something
to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two
nights later, but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out
what was in his mind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 119 | Author: | Kelly, Myra, 1876-1910 | Add | | | Title: | A Christmas Present for a Lady | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the week before Christmas, and the First Reader Class, in a lower
East Side school, had, almost to a man, decided on the gifts to be lavished
on "Teacher." She was quite unprepared for any such observance on the part
of her small adherents, for her first study of the roll book had shown her
that its numerous Jacobs, Isidores, and Rachels belonged to a class to which
Christmas Day was much as other days. And so she went serenely on her way,
all unconscious of the swift and strict relation between her manner and her
chances. She was, for instance, the only person in the room who did not know
that her criticism of Isidore Belchatosky's hands and face cost her a tall
"three for ten cents" candlestick and a plump box of candy. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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