| | 61 | Author: | Hamilton, Alexander; John Jay; and James Madison | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Federalist Papers  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | To the People of the State of New York:
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the
subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on
a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject
speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences
nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare
of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many
respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently
remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this
country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important
question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of
establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether
they are forever destined to depend for their political
constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the
remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be
regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a
wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve
to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 65 | Author: | Hawthorne, Julian | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Golden Fleece | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE professor crossed one long, lean leg
over the other, and punched down the
ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip
of his middle finger. The thermometer on
the shady veranda marked eighty-seven
degrees of heat, and nature wooed the soul to
languor and revery; but nothing could abate
the energy of this bony sage. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 66 | Author: | Henook-Makhewe-Kelenaka (Angel De Cora) | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "The Sick Child" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Greyscale, horizontal oblong image of little girl's portrait in profile.
In left foreground, she faces left across a slightly rolling plain, her
gaze lifted. The back of her head is covered with a striped blanket.
Her small right hand holds the edge of the blanket near her throat.
Her dark hair is combed close to her head and then braided, one
circular knot of braid just visible above her right ear. Some
handwriting is visible in the bottom right-hand corner of the
portrait, but is not decipherable. Illustration by the author. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 72 | Author: | Jacobs, William Wyman. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Monkey's Paw. | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WITHOUT, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlor
of
Lakesnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned
brightly.
Father and son were at chess, the former, who possessed ideas
about
the game involving radical changes, putting his king into such
sharp and unnecessary perils that it even provoked comment from
the
white-haired old lady knitting placidly by the fire. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 73 | Author: | Johnson, Samuel | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE difficulty of the first address on any new
occasion, is felt by every man in his transactions
with the world, and confessed by the settled and
regular forms of salutation which necessity has
introduced into all languages. Judgment was wearied
with the perplexity of being forced upon choice,
where there was no motive to preference; and it was
found convenient that some easy method of introduction
should be established, which, if it wanted
the allurement of novelty, might enjoy the security
of prescription. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 79 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Conflict | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally
divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now
Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the
unchanged house — spacious, old-fashioned — looking down
from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens
upon the sooty, smoky activities of Remsen City,
looking out upon a charming panorama of hills and valleys
in the heart of South Central Indiana. Six years of
striving in the East and abroad to satisfy the restless
energy she inherited from her father; and here she was,
as restless as ever — yet with everything done that a
woman could do in the way of an active career. She
looked back upon her years of elaborate preparation;
she looked forward upon — nothing. That is, nothing
but marriage — dropping her name, dropping her
personality, disappearing in the personality of another.
She had never seen a man for whom she would make
such a sacrifice; she did not believe that such a man
existed. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | Author: | Phillips, David Graham, 1867-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Cost | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Pauline Gardiner joined us on the day that we,
the Second Reader class, moved from the basement
to the top story of the old Central Public
School. Her mother brought her and, leaving,
looked round at us, meeting for an instant each
pair of curious eyes with friendly appeal. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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