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181Author:  Brock: MassachusettsRequires cookie*
 Title:  Massachusetts` Currency Reform Act (1749) / by Massachusetts  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WHEREAS the sum of one hundred and eighty-three thousand six hundred and forty-nine pounds two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny sterling money, has been granted by the parliament of Great Britain, for reimbursing to this province their expences in taking and securing Cape Breton, —
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182Author:  Colton, Arthur, 1868-1943Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Spiral Stone  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The graveyard on the brow of the hill was white with snow. The marbles were white, the evergreens black. One tall spiral stone stood painfully near the centre. The little brown church outside the gates turned its face in the more comfortable direction of the village.
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183Author:  Cosegrave, John O`Hara ; Nordman, J. Jerome ; Whitlock, BrandRequires cookie*
 Title:  "Instead of an Article : About Pittsburg and, Incidentally, about Editing a Magazine"  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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184Author:  Cutting, Mary StewartRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Happiest Time / By Mary Stewart Cutting  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "AREN'T you coming to church with me this morning?"
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185Author:  Davis, JeffersonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Inaugural Address  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861
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186Author:  Defoe, DanielRequires cookie*
 Title:  Robinson Crusoe  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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187Author:  Defoe, DanielRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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188Author:  Debus, Allen G.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Alchemy  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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189Author:  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Pickwick papers  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 'MY DEAR PICKWICK,—YOU, my dear friend, are placed far beyond the reach of many mortal frailties and weaknesses which ordinary people cannot overcome. You do not know what it is, at one blow, to be deserted by a lovely and fascinating creature, and to fall a victim to the artifices of a villain, who had the grin of cunning beneath the mask of friendship. I hope you never may.
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190Author:  Brock: Douglass, WilliamRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America / by William Douglass  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: The many Schemes at present upon the Anvil in Boston, for emitting enormous Quantities of Paper Currencies; are the Occasion of this Discourse. The Writer does not vainly pretend to dictate to Government, or prescribe to Trade; but with a sincere Regard to the publick Good, has taken some Pains, to collect, digest, and set in a proper Light, several Facts and Political Experiences especially relating to Paper Currencies; which tho' plain in themselves, are not obvious to every Body. If any Expressions should sound harsh, they are not to be understood as a Reflection upon this Province in general: It was always my Opinion, That the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, is by far the most vigorous and promising Plant (with proper Cultivation) of all the British Plantations; in the best of Countries at Times, bad Administrations, and private evil Men of Influence have prevailed. The Author is not a transient Person, who from Humour or Caprice, or other Views may expose the Province; but is by Inclination induced, and by Interest obliged to study the Good of the Country.
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191Author:  Brock: Douglass, WilliamRequires cookie*
 Title:  A summary, historical and political, of the first planting, progressive improvements, and present state of the British settlements in North-America... / by William Douglass  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: It is arrogant, in some Measure seditious, and a great Sin against the divine Institution of Society; for any Person or Persons, to exclaim against the Acts of Legislature; the following are only some private Speculations, concerning the negotiating of the late Cape-Breton Expedition Reimbursement Money, and the sudden Transition from an immense base Paper-Currency, to that good and universal Medium of Silver Money.
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192Author:  Dunne, F. P.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Pursuit of Riches / Dunne, F. P.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Dear me, I wisht I had money," said Mr, Hennessy.
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193Author:  Emerson, Willis GeorgeRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Smoky God, or: A Voyage to the Inner World / by Willis George Emerson  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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194Author:  England, George AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  Fire Fight Fire  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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195Author:  Frazer, James George, SirRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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196Author:  Furman, Lucy S.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Course of True Love: Kentucky Mountain Sketch  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE story of the falling in love of Philip Floyd at the Settlement School on Perilous Creek soon after his thirteenth birthday, and of the transforming effects of the tender passion upon his person and character, has already been related.[1] Under the exacting requirements of little Dilsey Warrick, his earwashings, head-combings, tooth-brushings, and clothes-mendings, not to speak of his violent attacks of manners and generosity, were such as to make Miss Loring wish that each and every one of her twelve boys might quickly experience a like metamorphosis.
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197Author:  Brock: Glen, JamesRequires cookie*
 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.
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198Author:  Brock: Board of TradeRequires cookie*
 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.
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199Author:  Brock: Glen, JamesRequires cookie*
 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.
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200Author:  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864Requires cookie*
 Title:  Alice Doane`s Appeal  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ON A PLEASANT AFTERNOON of June, it was my good fortune to be the companion of two young ladies in a walk. The direction of our course being left to me, I led them neither to Legge's Hill, nor to the Cold Spring, nor to the rude shores and old batteries of the Neck, nor yet to Paradise; though if the latter place were rightly named, my fair friends would have been at home there. We reached the outskirts of the town, and turning aside from a street of tanners and curriers, began to ascend a hill, which at a distance, by its dark slope and the even line of its summit, resembled a green rampart along the road. It was less steep than its aspect threatened. The eminence formed part of an extensive tract of pasture land, and was traversed by cow paths in various directions; but, strange to tell, though the whole slope and summit were of a peculiarly deep green, scarce a blade of grass was visible from the base upward. This deceitful verdure was occasioned by a plentiful crop of "woodwax," which wears the same dark and glossy green throughout the summer, except at one short period, when it puts forth a profusion of yellow blossoms. At that season, to a distant spectator, the hill appears absolutely overlaid with gold, or covered with a glory of sunshine, even beneath a clouded sky. But the curious wanderer on the hill will perceive that all the grass, and everything that should nourish man or beast, has been destroyed by this vile and ineradicable weed: its tufted roots make the soil their own, and permit nothing else to vegetate among them; so that a physical curse may be said to have blasted the spot, where guilt and frenzy consummated the most execrable scene that our history blushes to record. For this was the field where superstition won her darkest triumph; the high place where our fathers set up their shame, to the mournful gaze of generations far remote. The dust of martyrs was beneath our feet. We stood on Gallows Hill.
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