| | 189 | Author: | Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 190 | Author: | Brock: Douglass, William | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 191 | Author: | Brock: Douglass, William | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 196 | Author: | 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 197 | Author: | Brock: Glen, James | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 198 | Author: | Brock: Board of Trade | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 199 | Author: | Brock: Glen, James | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 200 | Author: | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | Requires 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. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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