| | 61 | Author: | Myerson, Abraham, 1881-1948. | Add | | | Title: | The Foundations of Personality  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MAN'S interest in character is founded on an intensely practical
need. In whatsoever relationship we deal with our fellows, we base our
intercourse largely on our understanding of their characters. The
trader asks concerning his customer, "Is he honest?'' and the teacher
asks about the pupil, "Is he earnest?'' The friend bases his
friendship on his good opinion of his friend; the foe seeks to know
the weak points in the hated one's make-up; and the maiden yearning
for her lover whispers to, herself, "Is he true?'' Upon our success
in reading the character of others, upon our understanding of
ourselves hangs a good deal of our life's success or failure. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 63 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Add | | | Title: | Grizel Cochrane's Ride | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the midsummer of 1685, the hearts of the people of old Edinburgh
were filled with trouble and excitement. King Charles the Second, of
England, was dead, and his brother, the Duke of York, reigned in his
stead to the dissatisfaction of a great number of the people. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 65 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Add | | | Title: | Painted Windows | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | YOUNG people believe very little that they hear about the
compensations of growing old, and of living over again in memory the
events of the past. Yet there really are these com-pensations and
pleasures, and although they are not so vivid and breathless as the
pleasures of youth, they have some-thing delicate and fine about them
that must be experienced to be appreciated. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 70 | Author: | Redgrove, Herbert Stanley, 1887-1943 | Add | | | Title: | Bygone Beliefs / Redgrove, Herbert Stanley. | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN the earliest days of his upward evolution man was
satisfied with a very crude explanation of natural
phenomena—that to which the name "animism"
has been given. In this stage of mental development
all the various forces of Nature are personified:
the rushing torrent, the devastating fire, the wind
rustling the forest leaves—in the mind of the animistic
savage all these are personalities, spirits, like himself,
but animated by motives more or less antagonistic
to him. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 72 | Author: | Sinclair, Upton, 1878-1968 | Add | | | Title: | 100% : The Story of a Patriot / by Upton Sinclair | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of
accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look
back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his
being has come. A young man is walking down the street, quite casually,
with an empty mind and no set purpose; he comes to a crossing, and for
no reason that he could tell he takes the right hand turn instead of the
left; and so it happens that he encounters a blue-eyed girl, who sets
his heart to beating. He meets the girl, marries her — and she became
your mother. But now, suppose the young man had taken the left hand turn
instead of the right, and had never met the blue-eyed girl; where would
you be now, and what would have become of those qualities of mind which
you consider of importance to the world, and those grave affairs of
business to which your time is devoted? | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 73 | Author: | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 | Add | | | 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 |
| 77 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1834 June 2 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I embrace this oppertunity to inform you
that I am well hoping that these few lines will find you in and all yours in good helth it
affords me adegree of Comfort that I have the
oppertunity of conversing with you by
way of paper and ink I have been in Africa almost Six months and I have not kept my bed one
day at A time I had but A Slight tuch of the fever I have Chills now
and then and also the fever with them the
fever is not as hard in this Country as it is in the United States if you get it around here it is very hard to
heal but I thank god that I have had none yet
it is almost nedless for me to undertake
to dis crib
Africa to you I have Seen but
little of it but this I can Say the more I See and
the longer I Stay the better I
like it I am convinced in my owun own mind that all that is wanting is
industry and good management and then we Shall be independant and can enjoy the comforts of life I visited A Town by the name of
New Gorgia
it is Settled by the recaptured Africans by the name of
Ebose and
Congose
they had not been in the United
States long enough to learn to talk
English if you Could See their town and
their farms around it you would Say that any person that could not live in
A A
Africa
ort
to Starve I Seen three Crops all at
one time on one peace of ground their was corn rice and Cosider and they all
look as promising as I would wish to See them
Swete
potatos look as fine as any I ever Saw I must Say that I am afraid that our Country never
will improve as it
ort
untill
the people in the United States keep their Slaves
that they have raised like as dum as horses at home and Send those here who
will be A help to improve the Country
as for Virginia as far as my
knowledg extends I think She has Sent out the
most Stupid Set of people in the place while they have them their the cow hide is hardly ever
off of their backs and when they come here they feal So free that they walk about from morning till evening
with out doing one Stroke of work by those means they become to Sufer
people in the United States
ort
to have more regard for Liberia than to
Send Such people here Some think that every thing grows
by
in this Country with out labour but they are mistaken I must Correct an error that I made in William Jackson's
letter I Stated that every
thing grew almost
Spontanious in this Country I wish to be un derstood by
that expresion that we need not labour half
So hard here as in Some parts of the United
States yet we can not live with out work
their have com agrate many from
North Carlina
who are dregs in the place the most
enterprising men that we have here is from Baltimore and
Charleton
I can only Say that if the
Coulard man had the Same oppertunity with the White man he would not be one Step
behind him in no respect
the
their is not much Sickness in Liberia at this time god Still
preserves our lives
time would fail
m with me to tell all that I have
Seen and heard Since I left
Buchannon
I often think about you the thousands of miles apart we have had
Seet
intercourse together on Buchannon and
I feal in hopes if god Spares us we will See each
other in the flesh I am now living in
Call well
imploid to assist in giving out provis ion and Selling goods in the mean time I am studing grammer and the
arithmetic I want to get all the Learning
that I can for with out it we can do but little
both in temperl and Spirituel
matters your assistance to me will never
be forgotten by me while I move on the globe as it respects my religious
enjoy ments I think I enjoy my Self as well as I ever have Since god Spoke
peace to my Soul the more I See of the world the more I feal like Serving god as I n
no that I have but afew
days to live in the world I want to do all I can in god's service I feal that when
god calls me from this world that it Shall be from the walls of Zion I have been trying to Blow the gospel trump
ever since I landed in
Africa
I Still feal that god is with me god is reviveing his
work in
Caldwell
I feal as if the time was not far distant
till the Clangours of truth will be Sounded to
the last green verg on erth
when I look back to America
and See how the people in Buchannon Stood in my
way in trying to Serve god I fear that if they do not repent they will
be Sorry in the morning of the resurrection I can appeal to god and Say I love all my old neighbours I want you to give my best love to
your wife and tell her that I am Still trying to [illeg.]
tell her not to forget
me at athrone of grace Give my
love to all the family tell your boys to improve their time in
learning while young and when they grow up they will be glad that they
Spent their time in gaining knowledg tell
Betty likewise to get learning tell
Lydia that I expect She has all the learning She
can get unless She goes to
Germany
if She is not mared yet
[illeg.] tell her to write to me and I will try
and bring A German with me when I come to the
United States
I want you to give my love to your father and all his family both
at [illeg.]
and
abroad I have not time to mention [illeg.]
[illeg.]
names
tell them all that I am better contented than I
ever was Since I
blivd
that god called me to preach his gosple
their is a large field
opend
for me and I intend to labour for god untill he Calls me from the world and then I hope to go
whare the wicked Seas from trubling and the wared Soul be for ever at rest O Henry never sufer the vain and sorded things of this world to deprive you of the
immortle
crown
[illeg.] that awaits the faithful
at god's right hand Give my love to
Mr Haselden
tell him that the world has not got my hart yet I and
I hope by the help of god that it never will get the advantage of me
for their is nothing in it worthy of our affection give my love to all my
old neighbours and to all
inquireng friends I want you to write
as often as possible and let me no what is going on
in your Settlement how many have died and who they ware also how things are generaly
both in State and in Church in Short write
all that you think will be profitable to me
this is the fourth letter I have written [illeg.]
to you Since I landed in
Africa
I will write as often as I can
please to excuse bad writing and Spelling for I am Surrounded with
company
I want you to tell the people to direct
their letters to Mr Robert R Gurley in
Wash ington
for him to send to me and I think that I will get them by so doing you will oblige your
friend. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 78 | Author: | Ceasar, Samson | Add | | | Title: | Liberian letters: Samson Ceasar to Henry F. Westfall 1835 August
3 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I feel happy to have the
oppertunity of writing you in order to let
you know that I am well at this time hoping that these lines will
find you all well. I am sorry to have to inform you that we have been
attacted by the natives at the place called
Bassaw Cove about one
hundred miles from here they
k killed about 15 or 20 Americans our people attacted them
twice and the first time we lost one man they sent up for more men they
went down and made the second
attact and drove the natives all out of Town it is not known how many natives got killed
but it is
Sertain Several was killed
I Can not Give you full Satisfaction in this letter I will send you
one
Herld and if I can I will send you a paper witch will be printed to
morrow or next day & witch will
Give you a full Statement of all the
ware. I Can only say that we are in no danger of
the natives if we manage Right as for my own part I feal no fear at all of the natives I
receive
a letter from Eade in July and was Glad to
here that you ware all
well tell
Eade
I have not time to write to her now but will write the first
vessel that Sails from here to America After this one Give my love to all your famely and
to all my old neighbours tell Mother
I am well Give my love to all the famely tell Daniel I have
never received a line from him Since I left home I am in a hurry the vessel is expected to Sail in a few
days. God is with us of a truth. I still feal
Intent on Serving God untill I die write as often as possible I remain your friend | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 79 | Author: | Douglass, William; Walker, William; Carr, Samuel | Add | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: William Douglass, Hugh Walker, and Samuel Carr
to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 February 6 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | i have taken this
oppertunity of wrighting thes
feue lines to in form
your how we ar geting
along in our new home we was forty one Days
from
Hamto n Rhoades
to
Cape Mont
and we need to illeg. that noe lives has not Bin lost in way coming
we ar at this tim settle on the
St Paul River fifteen miles from Monrovia and
the Children and some of our old Peopoel is
about to take the Affrican feaver But not
as yet
Searous and as Artickels
is high her we send for some things
Robbenson Scoot
send fore a
whiyp saw and 4 Barrels of flower and a coupp le Barrels of Pork
and a Box of Shoes of Diffrent sizes from
twelve to 8 of men shoes and from 8 to 5 of woman shoes forty yards of calicoe and forty
yards of lawn of Diffrent Kindes and Dozon pair of thin stockigs and forty yards of Bleach and unbleach cotton and dozon spools of cotton and send me 8 yardes of Dottot whit Muslin
Jeams
and
Douglass[1] send fore a suit of Broad Cloth Clothes and a Dozon Shirtes each fiftwen
Dollars a Peac
Jeames
and
Douglass
Robenson Scoot
send fore a foot
axe and pleas to me twenty
Dollars in money and i should to have the whiyp saw as soone as i can
get
Molly send worde to
youe to send her 4 Barrels of flooers of
and 2 Barrels of Pork thirty yardes of
Unbleac Cotton and thirty yardes of Calicoe
Dozon Pair of woman shoes number six and all soe
a Barrel of Suggar and half a Dozon of men shoes number twelve and Spooles of
Sootton Diffrent qality half Dozon Pair of Stock ings
[Illeg.]
Judah Hardon
Send fore thirty yards of Calicoe and thirty yardes of unbleach cotton 4 pair man shoes number
eleven and half a Dozon of Boyes Shoes
about 7 or 8 years old and a whiyp saw 3 Barrelles of floower and
a Barrel of Suggar 2 Barrel Pork and fifty
Dollars in money
Frances Barret if
youe Pleas to send her one Barre of flouer one of
Suggar too Barrels of Pork and
and a Barrel of Mackrel twenty yardes of Bleach and unbleach cotton twenty yardes
calicoe half a pair of stockings and Dozon
Splooes of Cotton Diffrent
qulty 4 pair of Shoes men shoes number nine
half Dozon Pair of wom en shoes
number 7
Dozon pair of Stockings and all soe Brier Blaid
Milly Franklin if you Be pleas to send her 2 Barrels of flower
and a Barrel of Suggar twenty yardes of Calicoe and twenty yardes of un bleach cotton 8
Pair of Stockings half a Pair of Shoes number
Seven
Rachel Mans
if youe pleas to send her twenty
yardes geames half a Dozon pair of Shoes 7
Dozon Pair Stockings
Dozon Spooles of Cotton half
Dozon Pair of Pocket hankerchef
Vonnor
[2] send fore if
you
pleas to send him 6 Barrels of flower and a Barrel of Moolasses and
a Barrel of Mackrel 3 pair of shoes number
nine 3 pair of sockes suit of
sunday Clothes ten yardes of Blue Jean
Henry[3] ask if you
Pleas to send him a Barrel of Suggar and 4 Barrels of flower
one of Pork and a Whiyp Saw and a suit of Brod
Clth clothes and working
Clothes and 2 hundred weight of
toobaccoe and ten Dollars and 20 yardes of Blue jeanes
Adline Southhall
ask if and Lucy[4] ask if youe Pleas to send to them
to gether 4 Barrel of flower 2 Barrels of Pork one Barrel of
Suggar 2 Barrel of Mackrels one Box of shoes
men shoes number ten and women shoes from nine to six
205
yardes of jeanes
205
yarde of Lawn and allsoe
of cotton cloth and calicoe
Dozon Spooles of Cotton Dozon
Pair of Stocking 20 yardes of Bleach cotton and a Box of Ribbons and some [illeg.]
sodar
Margret Scoot
if youe be pleas
to send her 3 Barrell of flower
on of Pork one of fish thirty yardes of Calicoe twenty yardes
of jeanes thirty yardes of Bleach cotton one of Sugar
Dozen Spooles of cotton and a box of shoes
women shoes from nine to six boyes shoes from
thirteen years old to seven years
Billy Dugllas
[5] if youe
pleas to send
him a suit of Brod Cloth Clothes and 20 yardes of Blue jeanes Box of Shoes
from 21 to 8 half a Dozon of Shirtes all Ready Maide
Grae Faran
[6] is be pleas to send him 2 barrels
flower
on of Pork one of Mackrel
half Dozon Pair of Shoes tens and 11 one
Barels of Moolasses 20 yardes of cotton jeanes thirty yardes of Bleach
hundred
whet of toabaccoe half
Dozon summer hats
Patty Walker[7]
sends her best respects to Doctor Minor and
requests him to please to send her 4 barrels of flour and one of sugar and
two of pork and one of mackerel her three
boys please send them each suit of broad clothes and a box of boots
and shoes No from ten to
7 mens and woman from 8 to five fifty yards
of calico and the same of lawn and gingham fifty
yard fifty yards of unbleached cotton two dozen of shirts all
ready made fifty of blue cotton jeans for mens wear two dozen of stockings and a dozen
pair of socks half a dozen bottles of castor oil,
and some gingham handkerchiefs and some flax thread and two dozen spools of
cotton — and when these things are sent please be particular in
having them marked to each one so there will be no mistake please be particular in sending a
memo of things so that there will be no mistake
made
they all join with me in love to
you all
wishs to hear from you soon
no more remains | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 80 | Author: | Walker, Hugh | Add | | | Title: | Liberian Letters: Hugh Walker to Dr. James H. Minor 1857 March 4 | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | UVA-LIB-Liberianletters | | | | Description: | I sit down to addres a few lines to you to inform
you that I am well but my wife has a severe attack of the acclimating
fever and the rest are
tolerable my three sons are out at a place
called
Careysburg
settled by Mr Seys and they are doing
well and have no sickness at all neither chills nor fever. I am much
pleased with this place I am still travelling
about trying to prepare a home for myself and
family there has been a great many died
since I last wrote for
insts
Robinson Scott and his son James, Patrick Mickey, Buck Thompson
Richard Franklin, Jacob
Twine, and his grand child
Lucy twines son, and Cyrus Terrel, and, Francis
Barrett and Samuel Carrs youngest child, two grandchildren of uncle Cy's
these twelve have died since I last
wrote the rest I think are getting better
Samuel Carr has been quite sick but I think he
is getting well again—William Douglass
has wrote to you and the boys sent for things in it but what I wrote
for you need not send as they desired
me not to send for anything please send me a couple of
brier
blades we have taken into deep consideration
how to live and to prepare to die while some
are rejoicing at their friends going to a better house others are filled
with grief at the thoughts of their future estate others have suffered with the fever
I am left to go and I am invited to preach in the baptist
and methodist and presbyterians | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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