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81Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  "IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE"  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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82Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  TO - -  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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83Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: southern provinces of France, my route led me within a few miles of a certain Maison de Sante or private mad-house, about which I had heard much in Paris from my medical friends. As I had never visited a place of the kind, I thought the opportunity too good to be lost; and so proposed to my travelling companion (a gentleman with whom I had made casual acquaintance a few days before) that we should turn aside, for an hour or so, and look through the establishment. To this he objected- pleading haste in the first place, and, in the second, a very usual horror at the sight of a lunatic. He begged me, however, not to let any mere courtesy towards himself interfere with the gratification of my curiosity, and said that he would ride on leisurely, so that I might overtake him during the day, or, at all events, during the next. As he bade me good-bye, I bethought me that there might be some difficulty in obtaining access to the premises, and mentioned my fears on this point. He replied that, in fact, unless I had personal knowledge of the superintendent, Monsieur Maillard, or some credential in the way of a letter, a difficulty might be found to exist, as the regulations of these private mad-houses were more rigid than the public hospital laws. For himself, he added, he had, some years since, made the acquaintance of Maillard, and would so far assist me as to ride up to the door and introduce me; although his feelings on the subject of lunacy would not permit of his entering the house.
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84Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  ULALUME  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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85Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: OF COURSE I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it not-especially under the circumstances. Through the desire of all parties concerned, to keep the affair from the public, at least for the present, or until we had farther opportunities for investigation --through our endeavors to effect this --a garbled or exaggerated account made its way into society, and became the source of many unpleasant misrepresentations, and, very naturally, of a great deal of disbelief.
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86Author:  Poe, Edgar AllanRequires cookie*
 Title:  A VALENTINE  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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87Author:  Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The tale of Benjamin Bunny  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: ONE morning a little rabbit sat on a bank.
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88Author:  Quiller-Couch, Arthur ThomasRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Ship of Stars  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Until his ninth year the boy about whom this story is written lived in a house which looked upon the square of a county town. The house had once formed part of a large religious building, and the boy's bedroom had a high groined roof, and on the capstone an angel carved, with outspread wings. Every night the boy wound up his prayers with this verse which his grandmother had taught him: "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Bless the bed that I lie on. Four corners to my bed, Four angels round my head; One to watch, one to pray, Two to bear my soul away." Then he would look up to the angel and say: "Only Luke is with me." His head was full of queer texts and beliefs. He supposed the three other angels to be always waiting in the next room, ready to bear away the soul of his grandmother (who was bed-ridden), and that he had Luke for an angel because he was called Theophilus, after the friend for whom St. Luke had written his Gospel and the Acts of the Holy Apostles. His name in full was Theophilus John Raymond, but people called him Taffy.
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89Author:  Roberts, Charles G. D.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Jean Michaud's Little Ship  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Patiently, doggedly, yet with the light in his eyes that belongs to the enthusiast and the dreamer, young Jean Michaud had worked at it. Throughout the winter he had hewed the seasoned timbers and the diminutive hackmatack "knees" from the swamp far back in the Equille Valley; and whenever the sledding was good with his yoke of black oxen he had hauled his materials to the secret place of his shipbuilding by the winding shore of a deep tidal tributary of the Port Royal. In the spring he had laid the keel and riveted securely to it the squared hackmatack knees. It was unusual to use such sturdy and unmanageable timbers as these hackmatack knees for a craft so small as this which the young Acadian was building; but Jean Michaud's thoughts were long thoughts and went far ahead. He was putting all his hopes as well as all his scant patrimony into this little ship; and he was resolved that it should be strong to carry his fortunes.
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90Author:  Robinson, Roger, editorRequires cookie*
 Title:  Writing Wellington: Twenty Years of Victoria University Writing Fellows  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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91Author:  Rockwood, Roy, pseud., Stratemeyer, Edward L. (1862-1930)Requires cookie*
 Title:  Five Thousand Miles Underground  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "WASHINGTON! I say Washington!"
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92Author:  Ruskin, John, 1819-1900Requires cookie*
 Title:  Unto this last : four essays on the first principles of political economy  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Among the delusions which at different periods have possessed themselves of the minds of large masses of the human race, perhaps the most curious -- certainly the least creditable -- is the modern soi-disant science of political economy, based on the idea that an advantageous code of social action may be determined irrespectively of the influence of social affection.
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93Author:  Russell, FrankRequires cookie*
 Title:  An Apache Medicine Dance  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: There are at present no men or women among the Jicarillas who have power to heal the sick and perform other miracles that entitle them to rank as medicine men or women—at least none who are in active "practice and are at all popular. This being the case, medicine feasts have not been held for several years on the reservation; but in August and September, 1898, two such feasts were conducted by Sotlin, an old Apache woman who now resides at the Pueblo of San Ildefonso. Sotlin made the journey of nearly a hundred miles to the Jicarillas on a burro. She was delayed for some time on the way by the high waters of Chama creek, so that rumors of her arrival were repeatedly spread for some weeks before she actually appeared. For festive dances the agent or his representative, the clerk at Dulce, issues extra rations of beef and flour, and the Indiana buy all the supplies their scanty means will permit from the traders. Supplies, at least of things edible, do not keep well in an Indian camp, and the successive postponements of date threatened to terminate in a "feast" without provision, when at length Sotlin arrived.
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94Author:  Russell, BertrandRequires cookie*
 Title:  Political ideals  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: In dark days, men need a clear faith and a well-grounded hope; and as the outcome of these, the calm courage which takes no account of hardships by the way. The times through which we are passing have afforded to many of us a confirmation of our faith. We see that the things we had thought evil are really evil, and we know more definitely than we ever did before the directions in which men must move if a better world is to arise on the ruins of the one which is now hurling itself into destruction. We see that men's political dealings with one another are based on wholly wrong ideals, and can only be saved by quite different ideals from continuing to be a source of suffering, devastation, and sin.
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95Author:  Russell, BertrandRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Problems of Philosophy  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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96Author:  SakiRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Chronicles of Clovis  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: "All hunting stories are the same," said Clovis; "just as all Turf stories are the same, and all—"
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97Author:  Robert W. ServiceRequires cookie*
 Title:  Rhymes of a Red cross man  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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98Author:  Skeat, Walter W.Requires cookie*
 Title:  English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: According to the New English Dictionary, the oldest sense, in English, of the word dialect was simply "a manner of speaking" or "phraseology," in accordance with its derivation from the Greek dialectos, a discourse or way of speaking; from the verb dialegesthai, to discourse or converse.
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99Author:  Smith, F. HopkinsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  Tom Grogan  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: SOMETHING worried Babcock. One could see that from the impatient gesture with which he turned away from the ferry window on learning he had half an hour to wait. He paced the slip with hands deep in his pockets, his head on his chest. Every now and then he stopped, snapped open his watch and shut it again quickly, as if to hurry the lagging minutes.
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100Author:  Smith, Adam, 1723-1790Requires cookie*
 Title:  The theory of moral sentiments  
 Published:  2001 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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