| | 222 | Author: | Veblen, Thorstein, 1857-1929 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions  | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The institution of a leisure class is found in its best
development at the higher stages of the barbarian culture; as,
for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such
communities the distinction between classes is very rigorously
observed; and the feature of most striking economic significance
in these class differences is the distinction maintained between
the employments proper to the several classes. The upper classes
are by custom exempt or excluded from industrial occupations, and
are reserved for certain employments to which a degree of honour
attaches. Chief among the honourable employments in any feudal
community is warfare; and priestly service is commonly second to
warfare. If the barbarian community is not notably warlike, the
priestly office may take the precedence, with that of the warrior
second. But the rule holds with but slight exceptions that,
whether warriors or priests, the upper classes are exempt from
industrial employments, and this exemption is the economic
expression of their superior rank. Brahmin India affords
a fair illustration of the industrial exemption of both these classes.
In the communities belonging to the higher barbarian culture
there is a considerable differentiation of sub-classes within
what may be comprehensively called the leisure class; and there
is a corresponding differentiation of employments between these
sub-classes. The leisure class as a whole comprises the noble and
the priestly classes, together with much of their retinue. The
occupations of the class are correspondingly diversified; but
they have the common economic characteristic of being
non-industrial. These non-industrial upper-class occupations may
be roughly comprised under government, warfare, religious
observances, and sports. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 225 | 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 |
| 230 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Negro Progress in Virginia | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE members of the colored race who live outside of Virginia are
beginning to grow somewhat jealous of the progress which our race is
making in this commonwealth. The Negro race in Virginia is going
forward, in my opinion, in all the fundamental and substantial things of
life, faster than the Negro himself realizes and faster than his white
neighbor realizes. I say this notwithstanding there are many existing
weaknesses and much still to be accomplished. This progress which
Virginia Negroes are now experiencing is owing to two causes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 231 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Up From Slavery: An Autobiography / By Booker T. Washington | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia. I am
not quite sure of the exact place or exact date of my birth, but at
any rate I suspect I must have been born somewhere and at some time.
As nearly as I have been able to learn, I was born near a cross-roads
post-office called Hale's Ford, and the year was 1858 or 1859. I do
not know the month or the day. The earliest impressions I can now
recall are of the plantation and the slave quarters — the latter
being the part of the plantation where the slaves had their cabins. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 232 | Author: | Washington, Booker T. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Teamwork | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EVERY large and successful business, or other organization, has been
built up by what is called "teamwork," not by one individual, but by a
number of individuals working together. In what I shall attempt to say
tonight, I want to emphasize the importance, in an institution like
this, of people working together with a common end in view. That is
teamwork. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 234 | Author: | Wedgwood, Ethel | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the name of Almighty God, I, John,
Lord of Joinville, Seneschal of Champagne, do cause
to be written the life of our Saint Louis, that which I
saw and heard during the space of six years that I
was in his company on the pilgrimage over seas and
after we returned. And before I tell you of his great
deeds and knightliness, I will tell you what I saw and
heard of his holy words and good teachings, so that
they may be found in sequence, to the edification of
those that shall hear them. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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