| 312 | 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 |
313 | 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 |
314 | 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 |
319 | 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 |
320 | 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 |
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