| | 342 | Author: | Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948 | Add | | | Title: | The Man of Flesh and Blood.  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE elements without were not in harmony with the spirit which it
was desired should be engendered within. By music, by gay
decorations, by speeches from prominent men, the board in charge of
the boys' reformatory was striving to throw about this dedication
of the new building an atmosphere of cheerfulness and good-will —
an atmosphere vibrant with the kindness and generosity which emanated
from the State, and the thankfulness, appreciation, and loyalty
which it was felt should emanate from the boys. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 344 | Author: | McGlasson, Eva Wilder | Add | | | Title: | Minnehaha | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SHE came out on the porch of the small, trim-looking house, and
stood restlessly fumbling with the broad gold band on her fore-finger. Her middle-aged face exhibited a sort of stolid distress.
The lips were purple and puckered. The wide, pale cheeks were
streaked with dull red. In her cold blue eyes, as they took
acrimonious stock of the medium's poor, weather-beaten house over
the way, a perturbed spark flickered. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 345 | Author: | Glasgow, Ellen | Add | | | Title: | "A Point in Morals" | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | "THE question seems to be—" began the Englishman. He looked
up and bowed to a girl in a yachting-cap who had just come in from
deck and was taking the seat beside him. "The question seems to
be—" The girl was having some difficulty in removing her coat,
and he turned to assist her. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 347 | Author: | Brock: Glen, James | Add | | | Title: | South Carolina: Governor James Glen to the Board of Trade, July 13, 1751 (excerpt) / by James Glen | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I shall endeavour to give your Lordships entire satisfaction as to that
part of your Letter with regard to the present state of our Paper
Currency and Publick Orders. You are pleased to say that the Report
which I formerly transmitted differs from an Account which you have had
prepared for your use, and you desire that I may explain the reason of
their differing. I have compared the two States and I cannot perceive
the least difference, except that the Account sent from hence descends
lower in point of time, and consequently comprehends more of the Publick
Orders that have been cancelled than the account that has been prepared
for Your Lordships in London neither does that account seem to take any
notice of the Publick Orders issued in consequence of an Act passed on
the 20th of August 1731 the Committee I presume thought it
necessary to be particular as to the different Periods at which the
several Sums of the legal Currency were issued, some part having been
cancelled, that have only said in general that the Sum of £106,500
amounting to £15,214: 5: 8 1/2 Sterling in the Year 1731, and being
of the same value at present, is still outstanding, and your Lordships
take notice that your state of these Bills
of Credit agrees exactly with that sent from hence, and that in
the year 1739 there remained then outstanding without any funds for
calling it is precisely the same Sum of £106,500 Currency. And the
reason I presume that took notice of the Publick Orders issued in 1731
and the £63000 orders issued in 1742, in the body of the Account, was
because that some small part of them was still uncancelled But your
Lordships may perceive by the printed account then sent over, and which
I now again transmit, that on the 5th of March 1736 there was
issued the sum of £35,010, which agrees with the 1st
Article in Your Lordships State of the Publick Orders, that on the
5th of April 1740 there was issued £25,000 which agrees
with the second Article and by an Additional Act on the 19th
of Sept the same year there was issued £11,508 agreeable to your
third Article, the Sum of £63,000 issued in 1742, which makes the
4th Article of Your Lordships State, is contained above in
the body of the Account, as some part of it is still uncancelled, and in
May 1740 £20,000 was issued, which is the 5th Article
taken notice of by Your Lordships. Those several Sums in the Committees
State (Exclusive of the Orders of 1731) make together the Sum of £150,
518, and Your Lordships may be assured
that as much was then sunk as is set forth in that Report, and
that since that Report was made there have also been cancelled above
£1000 of the Publick Orders of 1731 and £12,600 of the £63,000
Orders for the Year 1749 and 1750, So that all the Publick Orders that
have ever been issued from the beginning of the Government to this time,
there remains uncancelled no more than £12,600 Currency, which is not
£2000 Sterling, Except about £50 Sterling of the Orders of 1731,
and a few of the Orders in 1740, which I presume have been lost or
accidently destroyed, for I see none circulating, and for Exchanging of
which should they appear, there is equal Sums of legal Currency lock'd
up in the Publick Treasury, and except also £12,600 of the £63,000
Orders which will be sunk by the two succeeding Taxes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 348 | Author: | Brock: Board of Trade | Add | | | Title: | Whitehall: The Board of Trade to Governor James Glen, November 15, 1750 (excerpt) / by the Board of Trade | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | We come now to that Letter of yours which relates to the internal State
of Your Government. And before we make any observations
on the Reasons given in your Letter to evince the Necessity of a Paper
Currency in your Province and what else you have said upon the Subject,
it will be proper to tell you that the Report of the Committee of
Conference which you have sent us on the present State of Paper Currency
in your Province, and the Bills now outstanding differs from an Account
which we have had prepared here for our Use from the several Acts of
Assembly which have been passed in your Government for emitting such
Currency. We will state to you what We understand to be the Amount of
the Paper Currency at present outstanding in your Province and the
operations which every Act has had, that you may compare our State with
that of the Committee and explain the Reason of their differing. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 349 | Author: | Brock: Glen, James | Add | | | Title: | South Carolina: Governor James Glen to the Board of Trade, December 23, 1749 (excerpt) / by James Glen | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I have also inclosed a State of the Paper Currency in this
Province prepared by the Council and Assembly, by which your Lordships
will see that our Paper money of all denominations amounts to no more
than thirteen thousand and six pounds seven shillings and ten pence
Sterling, including both what is legal Tender, and all other kinds, a
sum so small that it is surprising that any person acquainted with the
circumstances of this Country would have complained of more especially
when it is Considered how punctually we have for many years kept the
Public faith by sinking it at the proper periods fixed by Law: We are
a new and improving Province, and are yearly adding to our
wealth, but it is impossible and it were improper that our Increase or
Profit, our Surplus or Ballance from abroad should be immediately turned
and converted into Cash and Bullion, since it may be more profitably
returned in other things that bear a better price. I make no doubt but
that our exported Produce is sufficient to pay for all our Importations
from Great Britain, and to leave an Annual Ballance due to us of several
thousand Pounds Sterling, but instead of purchasing Gold and Silver with
this Ballance, the Planters immediately lay it out in more slaves, these
slaves raise more Rice and Indigo to pay for more Cloaths and to
purchase more Slaves, and this is certainly a more profitable way of
employing the Ballance, for when the Interest of money was at ten per
Cent it was near Eight years before they could double their Capital or
principal sum, whereas a Planter expects that Slaves will pay for
themselves in four or five years, and whatever is most profitable for
the Planter, will in the end prove so for the British Merchant, and it
is to be wished that they were of that Opinion, but some of them seem to
think that nothing is to be regarded
but Gold or Silver. They
may at length repent the pains they have taken to teach the Planters to
love these tempting metals, for should they ever prefer Gold or Silver
to British Manufactures the Cloaths and Household furniture that they
are at present fond of and be forced to make such things as they have
not money to purchase Britain will reap far less benefit from her
Provinces. A Considerable quantity of Cordage has hitherto been
Annually imported into this Province from England, but a Rope walk has
been lately Established here and there can be no doubt of Success. The
amount of sugars sent us Annually from Britain is hardly to be credited,
but we have a Sugar house lately finished and the Sugars are equal to
the London Sugars and are much cheaper, the Merchants here clearly see
the consequences of these things, and I think it were easier to Silence
the Merchants at home, who make a noise about paper Money, by arguments
unanswerable, but I consider that I write to your Lordships whose
superior knowledge makes any observations from me unnecessary, for tho'
it may be pernicious to permit mall Colonies such as Rhode Island to
issue immense Sums without Limitation
and without settled Funds
to call it back into the Treasury again, yet that is not the case of
Carolina and therefore I shall only add that a larger sum in Paper Money
upon a good Fund and to be sunk at different Periods, seems to me to be
Absolutely necessary, without which it will be difficult for the people
to pay the Taxes for the support of his Majestys Government, to pay the
King's Quit Rents to carry on their Commerce, or even to drive their
little domestic Trade, all intercourse between Man and Man must for some
time be at a stand and they must deny themselves the most common and
ordinary necessaries of life, not for want of means but for want of a
Medium. The Planter must give the Merchant a Slave for a Suit of
Cloaths, which the Merchant must sell again to the Spaniards for silver
to send home. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 351 | Author: | Gogol, Nikolai Vasilievich | Add | | | Title: | A May Evening | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE were sounds of merriment in the village, and a chorus of
song murmured, stream-like, through its single street. It was the hour
when lads and lasses, after their hard day's work, meet in the mellow
gloaming to express their feelings in melodies which, though glad, are
never without a strain of sadness. The pensive eventide was dreamily
embracing the blue heaven, and transforming every visible object into
something vague, shadowy, and ghost-like. The brooding gloom settled
into night, and still the stream of song flowed on without
surcease. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 353 | Author: | Goldberg, Isaac | Add | | | Title: | New York's Yiddish Writers | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | STRANGELY enough, it has long been a question to many, not
alone whether the modern Jews have any literature, but whether
Yiddish itself is a language. Many have been the prophecies which
predicted the immediate extinction of the tongue, and yet, like the
fabled Phoenix of old, it has risen new-born from its own ashes. Let
prophets deal in futures — and it must be admitted that from certain
signs familiar to students of linguistic evolution Yiddish would
seem to be eventually doomed — the fact remains that to-day it is
enjoying what amounts practically to a renaissance. And the
question whether modern Jews have a literature is settled by a
reading of the works themselves. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 354 | Author: | Goldsmith, Oliver | Add | | | Title: | The Vicar of Wakefield | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and
brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single
and only talked of population. From this motive I had scarcely taken
orders a year, before I began to think seriously of matrimony, and
choose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surf
ace, but such qualities as would wear well, To do her justice, she was a
good-natured, notable woman; and as for breeding, there were few
country ladies who could show more. She could read any English book
without much spelling; but for pickling, preserving, and cookery none
could excel her. She prided herself also upon being an excellent
contriver in housekeeping, though I never could find that we grew richer
with all her contrivances. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 355 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Add | | | Title: | The Billionaire | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE KINGS of steel, of petroleum, and all the other kings of the
United States have always in a high degree excited my power of
imagination. It seemed to me certain that these people who possess
so much money could not be like other mortals. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 357 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Add | | | Title: | "Confronting Life" | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | CONFRONTING Life, two people stood—both discontent. And to the
question, "What do you expect of me?" one made answer with weary
voice: "I am distracted by the cruelty of thy contradictions. Feebly my
reason strives to understand the meaning of existence, and with
perplexing gloom my heart is filled before thee. My consciousness doth
tell me man is the highest of creations." | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 358 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Add | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [As a narrative of the visit of the best known of Russian short
story
writers to another regarded as still greater, the following article has an
especial interest. Maxim Gorky has long been popular in this country, and
his imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to overthrow the Government
has recently brought him into greater prominence. Chekhov's stories are
now beginning to be translated into English, and since they are much wider
in scope and more varied in style than Gorky's they are likely to find
more readers among us. According to Tolstoy Chekhov is the founder of a
new school of literature, and his influence will be lastingly felt
throughout the world. He was born in 1860, the son of a serf who had
freed himself by his own ability. He was educated as a physician in the
University of Moscow, and began to write for college journals at the age
of nineteen. His death last year is deeply regretted, since he was at the
hight of his powers of production and his stories were becoming
somewhat more optimistic in tone. The illustrations accompanying this
article are all taken from caricatures originally published in Russian
newspapers and magazines. The translation is by Lizzie B.
Gorin.—EDITOR.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 359 | Author: | Gorky, Maxim | Add | | | Title: | Philip Vasilyevich's Story | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | [Either on account of lack of evidence or because of the
protests of literary men and societies throughout the world, Maxim
Gorky has at last been released from prison, and he will not be
prosecuted on the charge of conspiring to overthrow the Russian
Government. It is not to be expected that his recent experiences in
the hands of the police will modify the appropriateness of the
pseudonym under which he writes, Gorky, "the Bitter One."—EDITOR.] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 360 | Author: | Gorren, Aline | Add | | | Title: | Womanliness as a Profession | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE question here discussed was one sure to arise, among us,
in America, sooner or later; and one, among the thoughtful, and
those who watch the signs of the future, also sure to arouse
interest of a special and peculiar kind. With the increasing
facilities for the higher intellectual development now offered to
the American woman, along with her sisters the world over—only in
greater degree, and more generally, to the American woman than to
any other—the effect which such development would have upon her
essential womanliness was bound to become a matter of anxious
observation. It is so become, in many quarters, now. People are
trying to find out how the "higher education" affects the women of
other countries, and seeking to compare the notes and suggestions
thus gathered up with what is to be seen here. Whether the higher
education shall be given the sex is no longer at all the affair
considered. It is conceded that the thing must be done; the
experiment is made; the point now is to observe what will come
next. For, certainly, unless we were very short-sighted, we were
prepared for the fact that something would come next. One subjects
nothing organic to a changed environment with any sane impression
that it will remain exactly as it was before the change. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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