| | 289 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Morals Lecture  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS SOLICITED to go round the world on a lecture tour by a man in Australia. I asked him
what they wanted to be lectured on. He wrote back that those people were very coarse and
serious and that they would like something solid, something in the way of education, something
gigantic, and he proposed that I prepare about three or four lectures at any rate on just morals,
any kind of morals, but just morals, and I like that idea. I liked it very much and was perfectly
willing to engage in that kind of work, and I should like to teach morals. I have a great enthusiasm
in doing that and I shall like to teach morals to those people. I do not like to have them taught to
me and I do not know any duller entertainment than that, but I know I can produce a quality of
goods that will satisfy those people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 290 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arousing More Interest | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | JOHN SMITH, ESQ. —
Dear Sire: It gratifies me, more than tongue can express, to receive this kind attention at your
hand, and I hasten to reply to your flattering note. I am filled with astonishment to find you here,
John Smith. I am astonished, because I thought you were in San Francisco. I am almost certain I
left you there. I am almost certain it was you, and I know if it was not you, it was a man whose
name is similar. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 292 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Roughing It Lecture, version 2 | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: By request, I will ask leave to introduce the lecturer
of the evening, Mr. Clemens, otherwise Mark Twain — a gentleman whose great
learning, whose historical accuracy, whose devotion to science, and whose
veneration for the truth, are only equaled by his high moral character and
his majestic presence. I refer in these vague and general terms to myself.
I am a little opposed to the custom of ceremoniously introducing a lecturer
to an audience, partly because it seems to me that it is not entirely
necessary, I would much rather make it myself. Then I can get in all the
facts. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 293 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Arousing Interest | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EDITOR, Sunday Republican: You may not know that I am
going to lecture at Mercantile Hall tomorrow night for the benefit of the South St. Louis Mission
Sunday School, but I am. I do not consider any apology necessary. I would like to have a
Sunday School of my own, but I would not be competent to run it, you know, because I have not
had experience, and so I have thought that the next most gratifying thing I could do would be to
give somebody else's Sunday School a lift. I used to go to Sunday School myself, a long time
ago, and it is on that account that I have always taken a powerful interest in such institutions
since. I even rose to be a teacher in one once, but they discharged me because they said the
information I imparted was of too general a character. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 295 | Author: | Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Morals Lecture | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS SOLICITED to go round the world on a lecture tour by a man in Australia. I asked him
what they wanted to be lectured on. He wrote back that those people were very coarse and
serious and that they would like something solid, something in the way of education, something
gigantic, and he proposed that I prepare about three or four lectures at any rate on just morals,
any kind of morals, but just morals, and I like that idea. I liked it very much and was perfectly
willing to engage in that kind of work, and I should like to teach morals. I have a great enthusiasm
in doing that and I shall like to teach morals to those people. I do not like to have them taught to
me and I do not know any duller entertainment than that, but I know I can produce a quality of
goods that will satisfy those people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 297 | Author: | Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Instinct of Workmanship and the Irksomeness of Labor | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It is one of the commonplaces of the received economic theory
that work is irksome. Many a discussion proceeds on this axiom
that, so far as regards economic matters, men desire above all
things to get the goods produced by labor and to avoid the labor
by which the goods are produced. In a general way the
common-sense opinion is well in accord with current theory on
this head. According to the common-sense-ideal, the economic
beatitude lies in an unrestrained consumption of goods, without
work; whereas the perfect economic affliction is unremunerated
labor. Man instinctively revolts at effort that goes to supply
the means of life. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 298 | Author: | Wood, Laura | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19—] | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | It was the spring of 1865, and the Civil War was almost
over. Petersburg had been under siege since June, 1864. At
this little Virginia city Robert E. Lee's half-starved, half-clad
army -“Lee's Miserables,” they called themselves, in allusion to
Victor Hugo's somber classic -had checked the advance toward
Richmond, the Confederate capital, of the Union commander Ulysses
S. Grant, who was determined to end the war by capturing the nerve
center of southern resistance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 299 | Author: | Fox, John, 1863-1919 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE days of that April had been days of mist and rain. Sometimes, for hours, there would
come a miracle of blue sky, white cloud, and yellow light, but always between dark and
dark the rain would fall and the mist creep up the mountains and steam from the
tops—only to roll together from either range, drip back into the valleys, and
lift, straightway, as mist again. So that, all the while Nature was trying to give lustier
life to every living thing in the lowland Bluegrass, all the while a gaunt skeleton was
stalking down the Cumberland— tapping with fleshless knuckles, now at some
unlovely cottage of faded white and green, and now at a log cabin, stark and gray. Passing
the mouth of Lonesome, he flashed his scythe into its unlifting shadows and went stalking
on. High up, at the source of the dismal little stream, the point of the shining blade
darted thrice into the open door of a cabin set
deep into a shaggy flank of Black Mountain, and three spirits, within, were quickly loosed
from aching flesh for the long flight into the unknown. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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