| | 1 | Author: | Jefferson
Thomas
1743-1826 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia  | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Sir—In response to your letter, I have to advise you that the text of the Declaration
of Independence (the original MS.) as signed by the delegates, reads, at the point
of your inquiry—“unalienable rights”, while the text of Jefferson's MS. draft, as amended
in committee by Franklin and Adams, reads “inalienable rights”. The latter is the paper
printed in Ford's edition of Jefferson's Writings, in fac simile. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 4 | Author: | Nietzche, Friedrich Wilhelm | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Beyond Good and Evil | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | 1. The Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous
enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosophers
have hitherto spoken with respect, what questions has this Will
to Truth not laid before us! What strange, perplexing,
questionable questions! It is already a long story; yet it seems
as if it were hardly commenced. Is it any wonder if we at last
grow distrustful, lose patience, and turn impatiently away? That
this Sphinx teaches us at last to ask questions ourselves? WHO is
it really that puts questions to us here? WHAT really is this
"Will to Truth" in us? In fact we made a long halt at the
question as to the origin of this Will--until at last we came to
an absolute standstill before a yet more fundamental question. We
inquired about the VALUE of this Will. Granted that we want the
truth: WHY NOT RATHER untruth? And uncertainty? Even ignorance?
The
problem of the value of truth presented itself before us--or
was it we who presented ourselves before the problem? Which of us
is the Oedipus here? Which the Sphinx? It would seem to be a
rendezvous of questions and notes of interrogation. And could it
be believed that it at last seems to us as if the problem had
never been propounded before, as if we were the first to discern
it, get a sight of it, and RISK RAISING it? For there is risk in
raising it, perhaps there is no greater risk. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 5 | Author: | Hen-Toh (Wyandot), B.N.O. Walker | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nubbins), A Modern Text and Facsimile Edition | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In his 1988 essay, Indian/White Relations: A View from the Other Side of
the Frontier, Alfonso Ortiz asserts that American history is written
strictly from the white man's perspective. While an American culture was being
established, the cultures of the Native American were totally distorted. In
fact, the European invaders tried to destroy that culture under the guise of
trying to assimilate or Christianize
the Native American in to the European culture. To have a true history of this
land, the records must be written by all participants. In his essay, Ortiz laid
out a model that would present people with a more accurate view of American
history. Part of that model demanded that the historical values of oral
traditions must be respected. As well, Ortiz felt it the duty of Native
Americans to take on roles as historians and to accept the challenge to seek
out, gather, and present accurate portrayals of history.[1] | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 6 | Author: | Minor, Louisa H. A. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | "WAIT AND HOPE": THE DIARY OF LOUISA H. A. MINOR | | | | Published: | 2005 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Loss is a constant theme in Louisa's Diary in both her personal life and that of the slaveholding South.
Louisa's losses climax with Southern defeat in April 1865 and four rapid personal tragedies in
January/February, 1866: the exit of all but a handful of the freed Pantops slaves; the out of wedlock pregnancy
of her "sister," Nannie Anderson by their first cousin, David Anderson; the death of Eliza Macmurdo, the eldest
Anderson grandchild; the death of Louisa's Mammy Eliza, mother of Nannie and grandmother of Eliza. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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