| | 21 | Author: | Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | 1492,  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos
in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that
was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother
was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never
truly recanted, and I had been much with her as a child.
She was dead, but still they talked of her. Jayme de Marchena,
looking back from the hillside of forty-six, saw some
service done for the Queen and the folk. This thing and
that thing. Not demanding trumpets, but serviceable. It
would be neither counted nor weighed beside and against
that which Don Pedro and the Dominican found to say.
What they found to say they made, not found. They took
clay of misrepresentation, and in the field of falsehood sat
them down, and consulting the parchment of malice, proceeded
to create. But false as was all they set up, the time
would cry it true. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 24 | Author: | Myerson, Abraham, 1881-1948. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Foundations of Personality | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MAN'S interest in character is founded on an intensely practical
need. In whatsoever relationship we deal with our fellows, we base our
intercourse largely on our understanding of their characters. The
trader asks concerning his customer, "Is he honest?'' and the teacher
asks about the pupil, "Is he earnest?'' The friend bases his
friendship on his good opinion of his friend; the foe seeks to know
the weak points in the hated one's make-up; and the maiden yearning
for her lover whispers to, herself, "Is he true?'' Upon our success
in reading the character of others, upon our understanding of
ourselves hangs a good deal of our life's success or failure. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Painted Windows | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YOUNG people believe very little that they hear about the
compensations of growing old, and of living over again in memory the
events of the past. Yet there really are these com-pensations and
pleasures, and although they are not so vivid and breathless as the
pleasures of youth, they have some-thing delicate and fine about them
that must be experienced to be appreciated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | Redgrove, Herbert Stanley, 1887-1943 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bygone Beliefs / Redgrove, Herbert Stanley. | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the earliest days of his upward evolution man was
satisfied with a very crude explanation of natural
phenomena—that to which the name "animism"
has been given. In this stage of mental development
all the various forces of Nature are personified:
the rushing torrent, the devastating fire, the wind
rustling the forest leaves—in the mind of the animistic
savage all these are personalities, spirits, like himself,
but animated by motives more or less antagonistic
to him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 35 | Author: | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | 100% : The Story of a Patriot / by Upton Sinclair | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of
accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look
back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his
being has come. A young man is walking down the street, quite casually,
with an empty mind and no set purpose; he comes to a crossing, and for
no reason that he could tell he takes the right hand turn instead of the
left; and so it happens that he encounters a blue-eyed girl, who sets
his heart to beating. He meets the girl, marries her — and she became
your mother. But now, suppose the young man had taken the left hand turn
instead of the right, and had never met the blue-eyed girl; where would
you be now, and what would have become of those qualities of mind which
you consider of importance to the world, and those grave affairs of
business to which your time is devoted? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 36 | Author: | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Survivors of the Chancellor | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CHARLESTON, September 27, 1898. — It is
high tide, and three o'clock in the afternoon
when we leave the Battery quay; the ebb
carries us off shore, and as Captain Huntly
has hoisted both main and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the Chancellor briskly
across the bay. Fort Sumter ere long is doubled, the
sweeping batteries of the mainland on our left are soon
passed, and by four o'clock the rapid current of the ebbing
tide has carried us through the harbor mouth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 40 | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Octave Thanet | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN, a decade ago, some one asked "Octave Thanet" to state
where she would like to live, her reply was: "Nowhere all the year
round." And if you care to make an attempt to trace Miss French's
whereabouts you will very likely discover that she is living up to her
declaration. A modern captain of industry
is not more at home anywhere than this
delightful writer of short stories — a literary lapidary she might well
be termed, so absolutely clean-cut and brilliant is her work. Miss
French has been complimented by pastmasters of the art of literary
criticism for work of a widely diversified character. She shows a
remarkable familiarity with life in our bustling west, as well as with
that of our less assertive south. We marvel at this, when we
consider that her birth and education is of New England. However,
the fact that fate compelled her to take up residence in Iowa, and
inclination led her to spend a part of the year in the south, accounts
for those characteristics in her work that are reflective of the
sections, and which might possibly puzzle an unsophisticated reader
concerning the personality of the author. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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