| | 3 | Author: | Beerbohm, Max, Sir, 1872-1956 | Add | | | Title: | Zuleika Dobson / Max Beerbohm ; Introduction by Francis Hackett  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT old bell, presage of a train, had just
sounded through Oxford station; and the undergraduates
who were waiting there, gay figures
in tweed or flannel, moved to the margin of the
platform and gazed idly up the line. Young
and careless, in the glow of the afternoon sunshine,
they struck a sharp note of incongruity
with the worn boards they stood on, with the
fading signals and grey eternal walls of that antique
station, which, familiar to them and insignificant,
does yet whisper to the tourist the last
enchantments of the Middle Age. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 10 | Author: | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Add | | | Title: | The expression of the emotions in man and animals | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WILL begin by giving the three Principles, which
appear to me to account for most of the expressions
and gestures involuntarily used by man and the lower
animals, under the influence of various emotions and
sensations.[1] I arrived, however, at these three Principles
only at the close of my observations. They will
be discussed in the present and two following chapters
in a general manner. Facts observed both with man
and the lower animals will here be made use of; but
the latter facts are preferable, as less likely to deceive
us. In the fourth and fifth chapters, I will describe
the special expressions of some of the lower animals;
and in the succeeding chapters those of man. Everyone
will thus be able to judge for himself, how far my
three principles throw light on the theory of the subject.
It appears to me that so many expressions are
thus explained in a fairly satisfactory manner, that
probably all will hereafter be found to come under the
same or closely analogous heads. I need hardly premise
that movements or changes in any part of the
body, — as the wagging of a dog's tail, the drawing back
of a horse's ears, the shrugging of a man's shoulders,
or the dilatation of the capillary vessels of the skin, —
may all equally well serve for expression. The three
Principles are as follows. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | Draper, John William, 1811-1882 | Add | | | Title: | History of the Conflict between Religion and Science / By John William Draper . . . | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Religious condition of the Greeks in the fourth century before Christ.—
Their invasion of the Persian Empire brings them in contact with
new aspects of Nature, and familiarizes them with new religious systems.—
The military, engineering, and scientific activity, stimulated by
the Macedonian campaigns, leads to the establishment in Alexandria
of an institute, the Museum, for the cultivation of knowledge by
experiment, observation, and mathematical discussion.—It is the origin
of Science. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 15 | Author: | Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 | Add | | | Title: | The Copy-Cat, & Other Stories / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys
and a little girl can keep a secret — that is, sometimes. The two
little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk
over the affair together, and the little girl, Lily Jennings, had no
intimate girl friend to tempt her to confidence. She had only little
Amelia Wheeler, commonly called by the pupils of Madame's school "The
Copy-Cat." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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