| | 141 | Author: | Canfield, Dorothy | Add | | | Title: | Petunias — That's for Remembrance  | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT was a place to which, as a dreamy, fanciful child escaping from
nurse-maid and governess, Virginia had liked to climb on hot summer
afternoons. She had spent many hours, lying on the grass in the
shade of the dismantled house, looking through the gaunt, uncovered
rafters of the barn at the white clouds, like stepping-stones in
the broad blue river of sky flowing between the mountain walls. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 147 | Author: | Carvalho, David N. | Add | | | Title: | Forty Centuries of Ink | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE ORIGIN OF INK—COMPOSITION OF THE COLORED INKS OF
ANTIQUITY—ANCIENT NAMES FOR BLACK INKS—METHODS OF THEIR
MANUFACTURE—THE INVENTION OF "INDIAN" INK—THE ART OF DYEING
HISTORICALLY CONSIDERED—THE SYMBOLIC ESTIMATION OF COLORS—THE
EMPLOYMENT OF TINCTURES AS INKS—CONSIDERATION OF THE ANTIQUITY OF
ARTIFICIAL INKS AND THE BLACK INKS OF INTERMEDIATE TIMES—ORIGIN OF THE
COLORED PIGMENTS OF ANTIQUITY-CITATIONS FROM HERODOTUS, PLINY AND
ARBUTHNOT—PRICES CURRENT, OF ANCIENT INKS AND COLORS—WHY THE NATURAL
INKS FORMERLY EMPLOYED ARE NOT STILL EXTANT—THE KIND OF INK EMPLOYED BY
THE PRIESTS IN THE TIME OF MOSES—ILLUSTRATIVE HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS
IN ITS RELATIONSHIP TO WRITING IMPLEMENTS—THE USE OF BOTH RED AND BLACK
INK IN JOSEPH'S TIME—ITS OTHER HISTORY PRECEDING THE DEPARTURE OF
ISRAEL FROM EGYPT—THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL BUT A FEW KINDS OF INK—INK
TRADITIONS AND THEIR VALUE—STORY ABOUT THE ORACLES OF THE SIBYLS—HOW
THE ANCIENT HISTORIANS SOUGHT TO BE MISLEADING—ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTE BY
RICHARDSON: | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 149 | Author: | Carr, Mildred | Add | | | Title: | Letter from Mildred Carr in Liberia to James Miner | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I take this opportunity
of writing you this lines to inform you that
We are all well hopeing that this may find you
and famil enjoying the same blessings of
good
Health now the ship is about to sail for
Virginia & wish to let you know about the
things that you sent me last one peace of
Brown jeanes and one peace of blue cottin
a small
peace of yaller
cottin & nothing
in the way of clothing as the outher woman
had thay had shoes stockins & calicoes
and I did
not think that you sent any more to them
Than you did to me & I can not beleave outher
Ways unless you write me that you did make
That differrance with us dear Master
James
Please send me some clothing for my self &
Children some shoes for me no 7 & a box of soap
and some counterpin calico and some
calicoes
for clothing for my self & children also we
has gotten in our new house just at Chrismast
and it is large a enufe for four rooms
Please Master send those things as far as the
Money will a low please give my love to
all the servants old aunt Rachiel
speshily
24-bit 300dpi
Please give my love to Brother Billy and
Joe when you see them as I am quite busy
at
this time washing & ironing for the society
In deed all the music hall woman are inployed
by the society at this time nothing more at
this time Master James but beleave me | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 150 | Author: | Carpenter, Edward | Add | | | Title: | Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE subject of Religious Origins is a fascinating one, as
the great multitude of books upon it, published in late
years, tends to show. Indeed the great difficulty to-day
in dealing with the subject, lies in the very mass of the
material to hand—and that not only on account of the
labor involved in sorting the material, but because the
abundance itself of facts opens up temptation to a student
in this department of Anthropology (as happens also in
other branches of general Science) to rush in too hastily
with what seems a plausible theory. The more facts,
statistics, and so forth, there are available in any investigation,
the easier it is to pick out a considerable number
which will fit a given theory. The other facts being neglected
or ignored, the views put forward enjoy for a
time a great vogue. Then inevitably, and at a later time,
new or neglected facts alter the outlook, and a new perspective
is established. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 151 | Author: | Cary, Elisabeth Luther | Add | | | Title: | Recent Writings By American Indians | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | OF late years we who call ourselves Americans, but, after all, are
only foreigners "changed by the climate," have had opportunities to
read a small amount of purely American literature in the writings
of some of the educated American Indians. Three authors in
particular—Dr. Eastman, Mr. LaFlesche, and the Indian girl
Zitkala-Sa—have notably enriched our records of the characters and
customs of their people. It is interesting to observe that each of
them has emphasized the finer aspects of the old order—which, for
them, has changed forever—with a pride that cannot fail to be
recognized by the casual reader, even where it is accompanied by
the most courteous acknowledgment of the merits and advantages of
civilization. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 153 | Author: | Casson, Herbert N. | Add | | | Title: | The History of the Telephone | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IN that somewhat distant year 1875, when the
telegraph and the Atlantic cable were the
most wonderful things in the world, a tall young
professor of elocution was desperately busy in a
noisy machine-shop that stood in one of the narrow
streets of Boston, not far from Scollay
Square. It was a very hot afternoon in June,
but the young professor had forgotten the heat
and the grime of the workshop. He was wholly
absorbed in the making of a nondescript machine,
a sort of crude harmonica with a clock-spring
reed, a magnet, and a wire. It was a most
absurd toy in appearance. It was unlike any
other thing that had ever been made in any country.
The young professor had been toiling over
it for three years and it had constantly baffled
him, until, on this hot afternoon in June, 1875,
he heard an almost inaudible sound — a faint
twang — come from the
machine itself. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 155 | Author: | Cather, Willa Sibert | Add | | | Title: | Ardessa | | | | Published: | 1997 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE grand-mannered old man who sat at a desk in the
reception-room of "The Outcry" offices to receive visitors and
incidentally to keep the time-book of the employees, looked up as
Miss Devine entered at ten minutes past ten and condescendingly
wished him good morning. He bowed profoundly as she minced
past his desk, and with an indifferent air took her course down the
corridor that led to the editorial offices. Mechanically he opened
the flat, black book at his elbow and placed his finger on D, running
his eye along the line of figures after the name Devine. "It's
banker's hours she keeps, indeed," he muttered. What was the use
of entering so capricious a record? Nevertheless, with his usual
preliminary flourish he wrote 10:10 under this, the fourth day of
May. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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