| | 401 | Author: | London, Jack, 1876-1916. | Add | | | Title: | The people of the abyss  | | | | Published: | 2003 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE EXPERIENCES RELATED in this volume fell to me in the summer of
1902. I went down into the under-world of London with an attitude of
mind which I may best liken to that of the explorer. I was open to
be convinced by the evidence of my eyes, rather than by the
teachings of those who had not seen, or by the words of those who
had seen and gone before. Further, I took with me certain simple
criteria with which to measure the life of the under-world. That which
made for more life, for physical and spiritual health, was good;
that which made for less life, which hurt, and dwarfed, and
distorted life, was bad. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 408 | Author: | Lynch, Frederick | Add | | | Title: | Personal Recollections of Andrew Carnegie / by Frederick Lynch | | | | Published: | 2000 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I FIRST met Mr. Carnegie on a special train to Tuskegee. Mr. Robert C. Ogden,
chairman of the Board of Trustees of Tuskegee Institute, had invited about
a hundred men and women to be his guests for a week on a special train from
New York to Tuskegee and back. The train was made up of stateroom cars with
two dining cars, and the guests occupied the train all the week, even while
at Tuskegee. (Principal Washington had built a spur from the main road right
into the Tuskegee campus. He used to say of it: "It is not as long as the
New York Central, but it is just as broad.") It was a very happy party. It
was made up largely of University presidents and professors, well-known editors,
many publicists, and a sprinkling of clergymen and authors. Practically every
man on the train was a man of international reputation, but three or four
stood
out among all the rest not only because of eminence, but because of
the good time they were having. They were in picnic mood and were enjoying
the trip immensely. They were often together. I recall especially Mr. Taft,
Mr. Carnegie, Lyman Abbott, President Eliot and Professor Dutton discussing
international affairs. The Philippine question was then to the front and
there was a wide diversity of opinion in this group on that question, and
when the talk veered around to the Philippines, as it always did, a crowd
of us younger men would gather about this group and listen—sometimes egg
the disputants on. Sometimes the disputants would get quite warm on the subject,
and then we heard some rare talk. All phases of internationalism were discussed,
but on this subject the members of the group were pretty well agreed. But
when it came to the question of armament there came a division of the house
again. There were a good many educators on the train, and most of them were
pretty thoroughly in accord with Mr. Carnegie's views, namely, that the
vocational side of education should be stressed, and that science should
replace the classics. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 411 | Author: | Jewett, Sarah Orne | Add | | | Title: | In Dark New England Days | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE last of the neighbors was going home; officious Mrs. Peter
Downs had lingered late and sought for additional housework with
which to prolong her stay. She had talked incessantly, and
buzzed like a busy bee as she helped to put away the best
crockery after the funeral supper, while the sisters Betsey and
Hannah Knowles grew every moment more forbidding and unwilling to
speak. They lighted a solitary small oil lamp at last as if for
Sunday evening idleness, and put it on the side table in the
kitchen. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 414 | Author: | Johnston, Mary, 1870-1936. | Add | | | Title: | 1492, | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos
in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that
was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother
was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never
truly recanted, and I had been much with her as a child.
She was dead, but still they talked of her. Jayme de Marchena,
looking back from the hillside of forty-six, saw some
service done for the Queen and the folk. This thing and
that thing. Not demanding trumpets, but serviceable. It
would be neither counted nor weighed beside and against
that which Don Pedro and the Dominican found to say.
What they found to say they made, not found. They took
clay of misrepresentation, and in the field of falsehood sat
them down, and consulting the parchment of malice, proceeded
to create. But false as was all they set up, the time
would cry it true. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 415 | Author: | Johnson, Samuel | Add | | | Title: | The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE difficulty of the first address on any new
occasion, is felt by every man in his transactions
with the world, and confessed by the settled and
regular forms of salutation which necessity has
introduced into all languages. Judgment was wearied
with the perplexity of being forced upon choice,
where there was no motive to preference; and it was
found convenient that some easy method of introduction
should be established, which, if it wanted
the allurement of novelty, might enjoy the security
of prescription. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 417 | Author: | Johnston, Sir Harry | Add | | | Title: | Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement | | | | Published: | 2001 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The date when this story begins is a Saturday afternoon in June,
1900, about 3 p.m. The scene is the western room of a suite of
offices on the fifth floor of a house in Chancery Lane, the offices
of Fraser and Warren, Consultant Actuaries and Accountants. There
is a long window facing west, the central part of which is open,
affording a passage out on to a parapet. Through this window, and
still better from the parapet outside, may be seen the picturesque
spires and turrets of the Law Courts, a glimpse here and there of
the mellow, red-brick, white-windowed houses of New Square, the
tree-tops of Lincoln's Inn Fields, and the hint beyond a steepled
and chimneyed horizon of the wooded heights of Highgate. All this
outlook is flooded with the brilliant sunshine of June, scarcely
dimmed by the city smoke and fumes. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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