| | 25 | Author: | Boyce, Neith | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "Prigs" and "Cads" in Fiction  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A RECENT review puts the question thus: "Although women make the amenities of life, and
men would soon 'hottentot,' as Miss Edgeworth has it, if left to themselves, why is it that
women's heroes are almost invariably prigs or cads of the first water?" And the reviewer adds:
"We thought we had reached the limit in Daniel Deronda, but even he shows up well beside Mrs.
Wharton's insufferable Selden: and now here is Barry Carleton filling us with a vulgar but lively
desire to 'punch his head for him.'" | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 28 | Author: | Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental cap of the letter M with a sailboat in the background.
MEN who do great things are men we all like to read about. This is the
story of Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America. He lived
four hundred years ago. When he was a little boy he lived in Genoa. It
was a beautiful city in the northwestern part of the country called
Italy. The mountains were behind it; the sea was in front of it, and it
was so beautiful a place that the people who lived there called it
"Genoa the Superb." Christopher Columbus was born in this beautiful
city of Genoa in the year 1446, at number 27 Ponticello Street. He was a
bright little fellow with a fresh-looking face, a clear eye and golden
hair. His father's name was Domenico Columbus; his mother's name was
Susanna. His father was a wool-comber. He cleaned and straightened out
the
snarled-up wool that was cut from the sheep so as to make it
ready to be woven into cloth. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 32 | Author: | Carvalho, David N. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Forty Centuries of Ink | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE ORIGIN OF INK—COMPOSITION OF THE COLORED INKS OF
ANTIQUITY—ANCIENT NAMES FOR BLACK INKS—METHODS OF THEIR
MANUFACTURE—THE INVENTION OF "INDIAN" INK—THE ART OF DYEING
HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED—THE SYMBOLIC ESTIMATION OF COLORS—THE
EMPLOYMENT OF TINCTURES AS INKS—CONSIDERATION OF THE ANTIQUITY OF
ARTIFICIAL INKS AND THE BLACK INKS OF INTERMEDIATE TIMES—ORIGIN OF THE
COLORED PIGMENTS OF ANTIQUITY-CITATIONS FROM HERODOTUS, PLINY AND
ARBUTHNOT—PRICES CURRENT, OF ANCIENT INKS AND COLORS—WHY THE NATURAL
INKS FORMERLY EMPLOYED ARE NOT STILL EXTANT—THE KIND OF INK EMPLOYED BY
THE PRIESTS IN THE TIME OF MOSES—ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS
IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WRITING IMPLEMENTS—THE USE OF BOTH RED AND BLACK
INK IN JOSEPH'S TIME—ITS OTHER HISTORY PRECEDING THE DEPARTURE OF
ISRAEL FROM EGYPT—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL BUT A FEW KINDS OF INK—INK
TRADITIONS AND THEIR VALUE—STORY ABOUT THE ORACLES OF THE SIBYLS—HOW
THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS SOUGHT TO BE MISLEADING—ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTE BY
RICHARDSON: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 33 | Author: | Carpenter, Edward | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as
the great multitude of books upon it, published in late
years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day
in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the
material to hand—and that not only on account of the
labor involved in sorting the material, but because the
abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a student
in this department of Anthropology (as happens also in
other branches of general Science) to rush in too hastily
with what seems a plausible theory. The more facts,
statistics, and so forth, there are available in any investigation,
the easier it is to pick out a considerable number
which will fit a given theory. The other facts being neglected
or ignored, the views put forward enjoy for a
time a great vogue. Then inevitably, and at a later time,
new or neglected facts alter the outlook, and a new perspective
is established. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 38 | Author: | Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Typhoon, and other stories | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CAPTAIN MACWHIRR, of the steamer Nan-Shan, had a
physiognomy that, in the order of material appearances,
was the exact counterpart of his mind: it presented no
marked characteristics of firmness or stupidity; it had
no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply
ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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