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41Author:  Kubovy MichaelRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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42Author:  Clemons Harry 1879-1968Requires cookie*
 Title:  The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THOMAS JEFFERSON was as completely the founder of the University of Virginia Library as he was the father of the University itself. The central structure of the notable group of buildings which he personally planned was designated by him for the use of the Library. The initial collection of books was selected by him, and by his efforts it was made possible to acquire the collection chiefly by purchase. Because of his wide and insatiable intellectual curiosity and of his lifetime of enthusiastic adventures as a booklover, the selection was of comprehensive scope and authoritative quality. The books were arranged for use according to his subject classification adapted from Francis Bacon. He chose the first two Librarians, and he formulated the first library regulations. During the nineteenth century there was a moderate increase in the number of volumes. But until the burning of the Rotunda in 1895, when a considerable portion of his original collection was destroyed, this was essentially Mr. Jefferson's University Library. The library materials and equipment following 1895 have been secured by the efforts of others. Yet even in this later period, there has to an accelerating degree been regard for and emphasis upon the intentions of the founder.
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43Author:  Sewell David R. 1954-Requires cookie*
 Title:  Mark Twain's Languages  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "Mark Twain's philosophy of language": surely something seems wrong with the phrase. It is pretentious, it claims too much, it takes itself too seriously. Mark Twain was a novelist, not an academic philosopher. Yet we would not balk if the name were "Melville" or "James," or if "language" were changed to "history" or "religion." Novelists can be philosophical, and Mark Twain wrote at least one book, What Is Man?, that claimed to be philosophy; the systematic determinism of his later years is notorious.1 We readily grant him a thorough amateur knowledge of European history but hesitate to admit his expertise in the very medium of which we claim he was a master. Why?
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44Author:  Bersuire Pierre ca. 1290-1362Requires cookie*
 Title:  Metamorphosis Ovidiana moraliter a magistro Thoma Walleys anglico de professione ṕdicatorū subsanctissimo patre Dominico explanata  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AVeritate quidam auditum auertent:ad fabu las aũt cõuertentur.ij.Thi.iiij.ca. Dicit apo stolus paulus prędicator & rigator fidei chri stianę. Quod verbũ ad hoc possuminducere [unknown character] plerũ[unknown character] fabulis:enigmatibus & poema tibus est vtendũ vt exinde aliquis moralis sensus extraha:ur:vt etiam falsitas veritati famulari cogatur. Sic ete[unknown character] sacra scriptura in pluribus passibus videtur fecisse vbi ad alicuius veritatis ostensionem fabulas agnoscitur cõfecisse:sicut apparet in libro iudicũ ca.ix.de fabu lis arborum volentiũ regem eligere. In ezechie[unknown character].ca.xvij.dea[unknown character] la quę cedri medullam ficta est transportare. Sacra e[unknown character] scriptura his & similibus fabulis solet vti vt exinde possit aliqua veritas extrahi vel concludi. Simili modo fecerunt poetę qui in principio fabulas finxerũt:quia per hmõi figmenta semper aliquam veritatem intelligerevoluerunt. Constat e[unknown character] libros poeta[unknown character] trãs currenti:[unknown character] vix aut nũ[unknown character] est dare fabulam [unknown character] n aliquã: aut natura lem aut historicam cõtineat veritatem. V nde rabanus de naturis rerum lib.xvj.ca.j.dicit [unknown character] officiũ poetę est:quę gesta sunt in alias species obliquis figurationibus cum decore aliquo cõuertere. Quapropter ibidẽ dici[unknown character] lucanũ nõ fuisse poetam: quia scilicet visus est historias potius [unknown character] poetica cõfecisse. Latetigitur qñ[unknown character] sub fabulis veritas naturalis sicut xempli gratia patet de vulcano: qui a Iunone dici[unknown character] genitus: & de cælo in terram [unknown character]iectus:& quia de alto cecidit fingitur claudus factus. Iuno enim aerẽ significat qui reuera vulcanũ.i.istũ ignẽ quẽ hichabem9 generat:& eũ per elisionẽ imbriũ de alto eiicit:qui [unknown character]eo claudus dici[unknown character]:quia flãma semper tortuose incedit. [unknown character] in fabulis aliquã dolateat veritas historica patetĩ fabula persei & athlantis. Per seuse[unknown character] dicitur gorgonẽ occidisse & cum eius capite athlantẽ maximũ gigantemin montem qui athlas dicitur cõuertisse:[unknown character]a scilicet perseus strenu9 gorgonẽ filiã phorci regis ĩinsulis meri dionalibus quæ gorgonicę dicuntur regnabat occidit & vicit: & caput eius.i.diuitias regnũ & substantiã tulit:cum quo exer citũ cõgregauit:ita [unknown character] athlantẽ regem aphrcę superauit ipsum Prologus in metamorphosimmoralísatã. in mõtẽ fugere coegit:& sic in mõtẽ mutatũ poetica gaulita ipsum dixit. Quia igitur video [unknown character] fcriptura vtitur fabulis ad ali cuius rei ostensionẽ & [unknown character] etiã poetę fabulas finxerunt ad verita tis tam naturalis [unknown character] historicę designationem cõgruummihi vi sum est post moralizatas rerũ [unknown character] prietates post [unknown character] ad mores reducta naturę o[unknown character]a: etiã ad moralizãdum fabulas poetarũ: manũ ap ponere: vt sic [unknown character] ipsas fictiones hoĩm possint morũ & fidei my- teria cõfirmari. Licitũ est e[unknown character] [unknown character] hõ si possit de spinis vuas col- igat: mel de petra sugat: oleũ [unknown character] de saxo durissimo sumat sibi:& quasi de thesauris ęgiptiorũ tabernaculũ fœderis ædificet & cõponat sicut etiã & Ouidius dicit. Fas est & ab hoste doceri. Ve- ũ quia de litterali fabularumintellectuiam p[unknown character]imi tractauerunt scilicet fulgentius Alexander:& Seruius & alij nõnulli quia litte ralis intellectus non est [unknown character]positi vbi scilicet non agi[unknown character] nisi de reductione morali: quia insu[unknown character] forte valde difficile ĩmo forte ĩpos sibile est: sicut bene deducit Aug.de ciui.dei lib.ij.litteralem rõ nem de oĩbus fabulis assignare: cumlipse Tullius lib.iij. de natura deorum dicat [unknown character] magnã molestiã & minime necessariã suscepit zeno prim9: post cleanthes: deinde crisippus cõmentitia- ũ fabularũ reddere rõnem Hinc est [unknown character] in præsenti opusculo q[unknown character] huius voluminis mei [unknown character]ticulam effe volo nõ intendo nisi rarissi e litteralem sensum fabulrũ tangere: sed solũ circa moralem ensum & allegoicã expositionẽ laborare sequẽdo.s.librũ Oui dij qui dici[unknown character] metamorphoseos: vbirecte viden[unknown character] quasi [unknown character] modũ tabulę oẽs fabulę congregatę. Distingãigitur istũ tractatum in xv.ca.secũdum.xv.lib.in prædicto Ouidij volumine cõtẽtos Aliquas tñin aliquibus adĩungã fabulas quas in alijs locis reperi. Aliquasetiã detrahã & omittã quas nõnecessarias iudica i. Nõ moueat tñ aliquẽquod dicunt aliqui fabulas poetarum alias fuisse moralizatas:& ad instantiam dominę iohãnę quõdam reginę franciæ dudũ in rithmũgallicũ fuisse trãslatas: [unknown character]a reuera opus ill[unknown character] nequa[unknown character] me legisse memĩ.de quo bñ doleo: [unknown character]a ipsum inuenire nequiut. Illud e[unknown character] labores meos [unknown character] plurimũ re- euasset: ingenium meũ etiã adiuuisset. Non e[unknown character] fuissẽ dedignatus expositiones in passibus multis sumere & auctorẽ eaũ hũiliter allegare. Sed ante[unknown character] ad fabulas descendã prĩo de formis & figurisdeorũ aliqua dicã. Veruntamen [unknown character]a deo[unknown character] ipso[unknown character] imagines scriptas vel pictas alicubi nõ potui re[unknown character]ire: habui cosulereve nerabilẽvirũ magistrũ Franciscũ de petato poetam vti[unknown character] [unknown character]fun dũ in scĩa:& facũdũn eloquẽtia:& exptũ in o poetica & histo- disci[unknown character]lina:[unknown character] pręfatas imagines in quodã o[unknown character]e suo eleganti De Saturno Fo.II.a ij mero describit. Discurrere etiã libros fulgẽtij. Alexã.& rabni v de diuersis [unknown character]tib9 trahã figurã v[unknown character] imaginẽ quã dijs istis fictitijs voluerũt antiqui secũdũ rões phisicas assignare cũ anti[unknown character] p[unknown character]es deos posuerũt & quasdã rerũ virtutes deos crediderũt & appellauerũt: vtpote: [unknown character]a [unknown character] sĩtellexerũt [unknown character] saturnũ: ętherẽ [unknown character] iouẽ: aerẽ [unknown character] iunonẽ: aquã [unknown character] thetidẽ: mare [unknown character] neptunũ: terrã [unknown character] cibelẽ: solẽ [unknown character] apollinẽ: lunã [unknown character] dianã.& sic de alijs. V ndeipsi antiqui [unknown character]a volue rũt res naturales vel saltẽ ipsarũ rerũ naturaliũ virtutes deos di cere:iõ ad hoc volueru nt aliquas aliquo [unknown character] historias applicare. Primo & añ oĩa videndũ est de saturno qualẽ supponeba[unknown character] hĩe for mã:& [unknown character]lẽ ĩ scripturis & picturis obtinebat imaginẽ & formã
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45Author:  Bersuire Pierre ca. 1290-1362.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Albrici philosophi et poetae doctissimi, Libellus de Deorum imaginibus  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SAturnus primus deorũ supponebatur, & pingebatur, ut homo senex, canus, prolixa barba, curu9, tristis, & pallidus, tecto ca pite, colore glauco, qui una manu, sed dextra falcem tenebat, & in eadẽ serpentis poreabat imaginem, qui caudam pro priam dentibus commordebat, Altera ueró, scilicet sinistra, filiũ paruulũ ados applicabat, & eum deuorare uidebatur, qui iuxta se habe bat filios Iouem, scilicet, Neptunum, Plutonẽ & Iunonem, quorum uirilia Iupiter amputabat, ante quem erat mare depictum, in quod Iupiter dicta uirilia abscissa proijciebat, de quibus Venus puella pulcherrima nasceba[unknown character]. L sbatur. uxta autem ipsum Saturm erat imago O pis uxoris suæ in cuiusdam similitudindẽ matronę depicta, quæ aperta manu dextra, opẽ omnibus uelle dare prætendebat, panem ue rò manu sinistra pauperibus porrigebat.
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46Author:  Han Ying fl. 150 B.C.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Han Shih Wai Chuan  
 Published:  2003 
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47Author:  Wang Chong 27-97?Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lunheng  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Wang Ch`ung is a native of Shang-yü-hsien1 1In Shao-hsing-fu (Chekiang). in K`uei-chi2 2Under the Han dynasty K`uei-chi comprises Chekiang, the South of Anhui, and the North of Fukien. . His style is Chung Jên. His family hails from Yuan-ch`êng3 3In Ta-ming-fu (Chili). in the Wei4 4A circuit comprising parts of Chili and Honan. circuit. One of his clan, Sun-yi, served his whole life as a soldier, and distinguished himself so much, that he was appointed warden of the southern part of K uei-chi, but, when one year a disturbance broke out, which disorganised the State, he continued to reside there, and became a farmer and cultivator of mulberry-trees.
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48Author:  Wang Chong 27-97?Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lunheng  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Fate holds sway over happiness and misfortune, being a spontaneous principle and a decree to meet with certain incidents. There is no alien force, and nothing else exercises an overwhelming influence or affects the final result.
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49Author:  Ban Gu 32-92Requires cookie*
 Title:  The History of the Former Han Dynasty  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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50Author:  Ban Gu 32-92Requires cookie*
 Title:  The History of the Former Han Dynasty  
 Published:  2003 
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51Author:  Ban Gu 32-92Requires cookie*
 Title:  The History of the Former Han Dynasty  
 Published:  2003 
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52Author:  Huan K'uan 1st cent. B.C.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Discourses On Salt and Iron  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: a. It so happened that in the sixth year of the shih-yüan era1 1In the second month of the sixth year of Chao Ti's reign according to the Ch'ienhan-shu, ch. VII (81 B. C.). See Introduction. an Imperial edict directed the Chancellor2 2. Chang* *Note: References to the principal editions and commentators will be given hereafter as Chang (Chang Chih-hsiang), Lu (Lu Wên-chao) and Wang (Wang Hsien-ch'ien). The various editors are discussed under "Editions of the Yen T'ieh Lun" in the Introduction. inserts a note based upon T'ien Ch'ien-ch'iu's biography to prove that T'ien was the "Chancellor" of the debate; also known as . and the Imperial secretaries3 3: Yü-shih, i.e., Sang Hung-yang , the "Lord Grand Secretary", and his assistants. Son of a shop-keeper of Loyang, he was made a at the age of thirteen due to his ability in "mental arithmetic" . In 110 B.C. he was promoted . For his biography, cf. Ch'ien-han-shu, XXIV, 6. to confer with the recommended Worthies and Literati,4 4: the Worthies and Literati who took part in the debate had been selected and recommended in the preceding year, (Ch'ien-han-shu, ch. VII). Persons so designated were first called upon to discuss official affairs in the 11th month of the second year of Wên Ti's reign. See the edict in Ch'ien-han-shu, ch. IV., where the Emperor summons them to . and to enquire of them as to the rankling grievances among the people.5 5; thus the actual subject for discussion was not specifically "the salt and iron monopolies", as indicated in the title of the work.
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53Author:  Han Fei d. 233 B.C.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu  
 Published:  2003 
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54Author:  Han Fei d. 233 B.C.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu  
 Published:  2003 
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55Author:  Baochang 6th cent.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Lives of the Nuns  
 Published:  2003 
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56Author:  Slaughter Philip 1808-1890Requires cookie*
 Title:  The History of Truro Parish in Virginia  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Among the prominent features in the physiognomy of Eastern Virginia are the great rivers which run from the blue mountains and pour their streams into the bosom of the "Mother of Waters," as the Indians called the Chesapeake Bay. Along these rivers, which were then the only roads, the first settlers penetrated the wilderness. This explains the seeming anomaly, that the first Parishes and counties often included both sides of broad rivers, it being easier to go to Court and to Church by water, than through forests by what were called in those days "bridle paths." Hence Parishes were often sixty or more miles long and of little breadth. The space between the rivers was called "Necks." Among the most historic of these was the Northern Neck, which included all the land between the Potomac and the Rappahannock rivers from their head springs to the Chesapeake Bay. This was the princely plantation of Lord Fairfax. Within this territory were the seats of the Fairfaxes, Washingtons, Masons, McCartys, Fitzhughs, Brents, Alexanders, Lewises, Mercers, Daniels, Carters, Dades, Stuarts, Corbins, Tayloes, Steptoes, Newtons, Browns, Lees, Thorntons, Balls, Smiths, and other leading families too many to mention, who dispensed an elegant hospitality at Northumberland House, Nomini, Stratford, Chantilly, Mount Airy, Sabine Hall, Bedford, Albion, Cedar Grove, Boscobel, Richland, Marleborough, Woodstock, Gunston, Belvoir, Woodlawn, Mount Vernon, etc. Beginning at Lancaster, county was taken from county, Parish from Parish, as the population of each passed the frontiers, until in 1730 Prince William was taken from Stafford and King George Counties, above Chappawansick Creek and Deep Run, and along the Potomac, to the "Great Mountains." This became also Hamilton Parish; which Parish, by an Act of the General Assembly passed at the Session of May, 1732, to take effect the first of the following November, was divided into two Parishes "By the river Ockoquan, and the Bull Run, (a branch thereof,) and a course from thence to the Indian Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge of Mountains," (Ashby's Gap.) All that part of Prince William lying below the said bounds was to retain the name of Hamilton, "And all that other part of the said county, which lies above those bounds, shall hereafter be called and known by the name of Truro." The Parish was named after the Parish in Cornwall, in England, which is now the Diocese of Truro.
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57Author:  Washington Booker T. 1856-1915Requires cookie*
 Title:  Black-belt Diamonds  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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58Author:  Hapgood Isabel Florence 1850-1928Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Epic Songs of Russia  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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59Author:  Hariot Thomas 1560-1621Requires cookie*
 Title:  Narrative of the First English Plantation of Virginia  
 Published:  2003 
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60Author:  Dana Richard Henry 1815-1882Requires cookie*
 Title:  To Cuba and Back  
 Published:  2003 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Saturday, the twelfth day of February, 1859, is a dull, dark day in New York, with visitations of snow-squalls, as the United States Mail Steamer Cahawba swings at her pier, at the foot of Robinson-street—a pier crowded with drays and drivers, and a street of mud, snow and ice, and poor habitations. The steamer is to sail at one p.m.; and, by half-past twelve, her decks are full, and the mud and snow of the pier are well trodden by men and horses. Coaches drive down furiously, and nervous passengers put their heads out to see if the steamer is off before her time; and on the decks, and in the gangways, inexperienced passengers run against everybody, and mistake the engineer for the steward, and come up the same stairs they go down, without knowing it. In the dreary snow, the newspaper venders cry the papers, and the book venders thrust yellow covers into your face—" Reading for the voyage, sir—five hundred pages, close print!" And that being rejected, they reverse the process of the Sibyl,—with "Here's another, sir, one thousand pages, double columns." The great beam of the engine moves slowly up and down, and the black hull sways at its fasts. A motley group are the passengers. Shivering Cubans, exotics that have taken slight root in the hot-houses of the Fifth Avenue, are to brave a few days of sleet and cold at sea, for the palm-trees and mangoes, the cocoas and orange-trees, they will be sitting under in six days, at farthest. There are Yankee shipmasters going out to join their "cotton wagons" at New Orleans and Mobile; merchants pursuing a commerce that knows no rest and no locality; confirmed invalids advised to go to Cuba to die under mosquito-nets and be buried in a Potter's Field; and other invalids wisely enough avoiding our March winds; and here and there a mere vacation-maker, like myself.
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