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181Author:  Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935Requires cookie*
 Title:  Wilderness Station  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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182Author:  Thoreau, Henry DavidRequires cookie*
 Title:  Civil Disobedience  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which the will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it. Witness the present Mexican war, the work of comparatively a few individuals using the standing government as their tool; for in the outset, the people would not have consented to this measure.
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183Author:  Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Blind Lark / Alcott, Louisa M.; illustrated by W. H. Drake  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HIGH up in an old house, full of poor people, lived Lizzie, with her mother and baby Billy. The street was a narrow, noisy place, where carts rumbled and dirty children played; where the sun seldom shone, the fresh wind seldom blew, and the white snow of winter was turned at once to black mud. One bare room was Lizzie's home, and out of it she seldom went, for she was a prisoner. We all pity the poor princesses who were shut up in towers by bad fairies, the men and women in jails, and the little birds in cages, but Lizzie was a sadder prisoner than any of these.
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184Author:  Brooks, NoahRequires cookie*
 Title:  First Across the Continent; The Story of The Exploring Expedition of Lewis and Clark in 1804-5-6  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE people of the young Republic of the United States were greatly astonished, in the summer of 1803, to learn that Napoleon Bonaparte, then First Consul of France, had sold to us the vast tract of land known as the country of Louisiana. The details of this purchase were arranged in Paris (on the part of the United States) by Robert R. Livingston and James Monroe. The French government was represented by Barbé-Marbois, Minister of the Public Treasury.
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185Author:  Browne, Thomas, SirRequires cookie*
 Title:  Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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186Author:  Cibber, ColleyRequires cookie*
 Title:  An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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187Author:  Cibber, ColleyRequires cookie*
 Title:  An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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188Author:  Dixon, ThomasRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Leopard's Spots [selections]  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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189Author:  Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Yates Pride  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: OPPOSITE Miss Eudora Yates's old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an un-married sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had many callers who liked to hear the feebly effervescent news of Well-wood. This afternoon three ladies were there: Miss Abby Simson, Mrs. John Bates, and Mrs. Edward Lee. They sat in the Glynn sitting-room, which shrilled with treble voices as if a flock of sparrows had settled therein.
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190Author:  Locke, William JohnRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Fortunate Youth  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs. Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button, and six little Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was not an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little house in a grimy street made up of rows of exactly similar grimy little houses, and forming one of a hundred similar streets in a northern manufacturing town. Mr. and Mrs. Button worked in a factory and took in as lodgers grimy single men who also worked in factories. They were not a model couple; they were rather, in fact, the scandal of Budge Street, which did not itself enjoy, in Bludston, a reputation for holiness. Neither was good to look upon. Mr. Button, who was Lancashire bred and born, divided the yearnings of his spirit between strong drink and dog-fights. Mrs. Button, a viperous Londoner, yearned for noise. When Mr. Button came home drunk he punched his wife about the head and kicked her about the body, while they both exhausted the vocabulary of vituperation of North and South, to the horror and edification of the neighbourhood. When Mr. Button was sober Mrs. Button chastised little Paul. She would have done so when Mr. Button was drunk, but she had not the time. The periods, therefore, of his mother's martyrdom were those of Paul's enfranchisement. If he saw his stepfather come down the street with steady gait, he fled in terror; if he saw him reeling homeward he lingered about with light and joyous heart.
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191Author:  Page, John W.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston / By J. W. Page  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: [pp. 7-17 transcription omitted.]
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192Author:  Reynolds, John N.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Twin Hells  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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193Author:  Twain, Mark, 1835-1910Requires cookie*
 Title:  Roughing It  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: MY brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory—an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother. I coveted his distinction and his financial splendor, but particularly and especially the long, strange journey he was going to make, and the curious new world he was going to explore. He was going to travel! I never had been away from home, and that word "travel" had a seductive charm for me. Pretty soon he would be hundreds and hundreds of miles away on the great plains and deserts, and among the mountains of the Far West, and would see buffaloes and Indians, and prairie dogs, and antelopes, and have all kinds of adventures, and may be get hanged or scalped, and have ever such a fine time, and write home and tell us all about it, and be a hero. And he would see the gold mines and the silver mines, and maybe go about of an afternoon when his work was done, and pick up two or three pailfuls of shining slugs, and nuggets of gold and silver on the hillside. And by and by he would become very rich, and return home by sea, and be able to talk as calmly about San Francisco and the ocean, and "the isthmus" as if it was nothing of any consequence to have seen those marvels face to face. What I suffered in contemplating his happiness, pen cannot describe. And so, when he offered me, in cold blood, the sublime position of private secretary under him, it appeared to me that the heavens and the earth passed away, and the firmament was rolled together as a scroll! I had nothing more to desire. My contentment was complete. At the end of an hour or two I was ready for the journey. Not much packing up was necessary, because we were going in the overland stage from the Missouri frontier to Nevada, and passengers were only allowed a small quantity of baggage apiece. There was no Pacific railroad in those fine times of ten or twelve years ago—not a single rail of it.
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194Author:  White, Stewart EdwardRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Silent Places  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: At about eight o'clock one evening of the early summer a group of men were seated on a grass plot overlooking a broad river. The sun was just setting through the forest fringe directly behind them.
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195Author:  Zerbe, J. S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Aeroplanes  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE "SCIENCE" OF AVIATION.—It may be doubted whether there is such a thing as a "science of aviation." Since Langley, on May 6, 1896, flew a motor-propelled tandem monoplane for a minute and an half, without a pilot, and the Wright Brothers in 1903 succeeded in flying a bi-plane with a pilot aboard, the universal opinion has been, that flying machines, to be successful, must follow the structural form of birds, and that shape has everything to do with flying.
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196Author:  Child Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880Requires cookie*
 Title:  The coronal  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | University of Virginia Library, Early American Fiction, 1789-1875 | UVA-LIB-EarlyAmFict1789-1875 
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197Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to David S. Haselden 1834 February 7  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I embrace this opportunity to inform you that I am well at this time hoping that these few lines may find you enjoying the Same blessing after fifty sixt days on the ocean we all landed Safe in monrovia I was very Sick on board of the vessle but I thank god that he has taken Cear of me untill the present time I hav Seen Agreate manys things Since I left home that I never would of Seen in Buchannon it urengs to mind the words of Solomon that the eye is not satisfide with Seeing nor the eare with hearing I must say that I am as well pleasd as I expeced to be in Liberia we hav most all had the fever and hav lost four of our number one woman about Seventy five two Children under twelve allSo the Rev Mr Rigt [1] one of our misenarys lost his wife and we may Say She is aloss to africa but we hav evry reson to belive that she is at rest the balance is all on the mend this is my twenty fourth day Since I first was takin and I thank god that I hav not kept my bed one hole day at atime the people do die through imprudence we hav the best docter that ever was in this place I can not tell you much about africa I hav not been from Monrovia Since I landed I must Say that the people are doing better than I expected them two agreat many of them got rich Since they came to Liberia their is Some that are doing bad like in all other places I think from what I hav Seen and heard that any body Can liv in this place if they will be industrous the natives are numerous in this place and they do the most of the work for the people in this place they will Steal every Chance They they hav they are most all Croomen[2] in respect to my Self I think that I Could make an independent living if I was to put my Self about it but as my intention was to Spend and be Spent for god I feal like standing to my post I hav not been employd by the methodist yet the Presbytterians offer to take me in to their famely and Support me and give me the best education that they Can their is four in famely two white men one white woman and one Coloured man they hav treated me with greate kindness and all So the methodist the methodist preachers are plenty in this place and their is not as larg A field in monrovia as would I wish to find and be spent for god our methodist bishup told me that as soon as he got over the fever he would find me A Station I Can not tell you at this time what parte of africa I will be placd in I will write when I can tell you more A bout it you must excuse bad writing and all So bad Spelling I must come to A close
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198Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 March 18  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I embrace the opper tunity to let you no that I send this paper to Adam Carper I am on my road to Calwell and met the oppertunity to send one paper home please to send it to him youy you must excuse me for not writing more and better my company is wating to go to Calwell I hav not been there yet but am on my road at this time. tell Adam to read the news of Africa and let his friends read the same and all so his neighbours I did not no when I wrote to Daniel that I could get A paper to send home my Company is waiting on me and I must Stop the writing is bad the Spelling is bad and the lines Crocked. The indorcment on the paper is put on by one of our store keepers pardon me for not senen sending you A paper
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199Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 April 1  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I embrace this oppertunity to inform you that I am well hoping that these few lines may find you all in good helth I wrote to you by the same ship that I came in and I now hav the oppertunity of writing to you by a vessel that brough out emegrants from baltimore to Cape Palmus About five hundred miles from monrovia their is anumber gon from this place to Cape Palmus as I wrote before I can not tell you much About the Country as their has been so many people died in this place I though I would not expose my Self in travling So I hav not been from the Cape we have vessels coming in harber All most every weak from urope no man could tell what trade is going on in Africa unless he could See it I hav seen so many Strang things Since I left home that evry thing be comes old when I first Saw the nativs all naked I though that I never could get ust to it but it is an old saing use is second nature I do not mind to See them now if I could talk with you face to face and tell you about the nativs you would not belive me to See their cloth that they make and other Articue els that they make you would be Supprised To be Short, their natturel talants are grate in deed Some of them can read and write. I am sory to tell you that we hav lost the Rev Mr. Wright after he lost his wife he had got on so fare that he came to Church and he took re laps and on the 21 of march he fell Asleep in Jesus arms ware Sickneys and Sorrow pain and Death are felt and feard no more Mr. Spaulding is very low at this time and all so the Single Lady, but She Says Se would Sooner Die than to go back and discurage the mishen it seem all most imposable for white men to liv here but still their is A greate many on the cost at the British Colenny their is a greate many white people in short they are coming and going out and in Monrovia most evry day we hav lost but five out of our number yet but God only noes how Soon Some more of us will hav to go but thank God it is as nigh to havin in africa as it is in America the time is not fare distant when Gabril will sound the Trump and gether us all together O that I may be so hapy to meet you and all your famely on the Right hand of God and all So all my neighbours ware we can enjoy the company of each other for ever and we will be clear of truble for ever and we will see our God face to face and live for ever. O Henry when I look back and reflect on the many ours I spent with you and your famely I am led to wish that I could see you all but we are severl thousand miles Apart at this time the Captain of our ship says it is five thousand and six hu ndred miles from Norfolk to Liberia he can measure A mile on sea as correct as you can on land I want you to write to me as often as you can vessels are coming from the United States evry month let me no all about the people how many hav died and who they are and how many hav mared and who they are and who was elected to the next Legislature. Write evry thing [HOLE IN MS] [HOLE] fit to write and I will do the same. [HOLE] Give my love to your wife and mothernlaw tell them to pray for me I often think of you all giv my love to Simon and Harison and to Bety tell them that I want them to have good education and good Religion Against I come to America Giv my love to your Father and Step mother tell them I often think of them Tell them to pray for me Giv my love to the Boys and tell them if they ever want to see any thing to leave Buchannon giv my love to all the Children to Philip Reger with all his family and to Mr Haselden and Goff and all inquireing friends Tell Lydia that their was A vessel from Jermany landed here About ten days Ago and I never saw better looking men in my life than some of them ware if She wants a Jerman and will write to me I will try to send hur one for I think they will suit hur Tell hur Above all things to get religion so that she may Save hur sole May the Lord bless you all and save you is my pray for Christ's Sak
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200Author:  Ceasar, SamsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 March 5  
 Published:  1998 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters 
 Description: I Embrace the opper tunity to inform you that I am well hoping that these few lines will find you all well I hav written to you not long Since I will not write but a short letter I want to in form you that I hav received but two letters from you since I landed I hav written as many as a dozen to you you hav no excuse for not writing vessels are coming from the united states everry month the most of the vessels are from New York with out it is and Emigrant vessel they are mostly from Norfolk three of our Preachers are expected to l Sail from Liberia to new york to morrow in order to bring their familys to Liberia to remain for life one is a white man Super intender of the Methodis Epistal Episcopal Church Several more of the people in this place are going I can not tell when I will start to come to America I am employed to teach school I do not know when I can come but if God Spares me I hope to See you all in this world if not I hope to see you in a better world than this I hav been to one Camp meeting in Liberia I must say I never was at a Camp meeting in my life that people acted better it has been very sickly here for a bout three month many hav gone to eternity in that time I thank God that I am still living Giv my lov to Mother Eade an to David and his wife tell them that I am well and doing well I am still striving to serv the Lord in my weak manner and to Preach the Gospel also giv my best lov to all the family tell them I often think about them and would like to see them all but the proud ocean rolls between us tho the ocean bet between us roll friendship shall unite our souls giv my lov to your wife and and Children and to Miss Lydia Simmons to all your friends and to all the neighbours I will send your father one of our herbals I hav not time to write much now please to excuse me as for you my best lov is alway with you I want you to write as often as possible and I will do the same
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