| | 103 | Author: | Glaspell, Susan, 1882-1948 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | In the Face of His Constituents.  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | SENATOR HARRISON concluded his argument and sat down. There was no
applause, but he had expected none. Senator Dorman was already
saying “Mr. President?” and there was a stir in the crowded
galleries, and an anticipatory moving of chairs among the Senators.
In the press gallery the reporters bunched together their scattered
papers and inspected their pencil-points with earnestness. Dorman
was the last speaker of the Senate, and he was on the popular side
of it. It would be the great speech of the session, and the
prospect was cheering after a deluge of railroad and insurance
bills. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 105 | Author: | Glasgow, Ellen | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Shadowy Third | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | I saw her lift her little arms, and I saw the mother stoop and
gather her to her bosom.
A drawing by
Elenore Plaisted Abbott. Standing by an open window, a woman wearing
a long grey shawl leans down toward a small girl whom she embraces
with her arms. The little girl has her arms wrapped around her
mother's waist, and leans back to look up into her mother's face.
There is a pot of daffodils on the windowsill.
Ornamental letter "W" which begins the text. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 110 | Author: | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Gray Champion | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THERE was once a time when New England groaned under the actual
pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought
on
the Revolution. James II., the bigoted successor of Charles the
Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent
a
harsh and
unprincipled soldier to take away our liberties and endanger our
religion.
The administration of Sir Edmund Andros lacked scarcely a single
characteristic of tyranny: a Governor and Council, holding office
from
the
King, and wholly independent of the country; laws made and taxes
levied without concurrence of the people immediate or by their
representatives; the rights of private citizens violated, and the
titles of
all landed
property declared void; the voice of complaint stifled by
restrictions on
the press; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of
mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years
our
ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which
had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country,
whether
its head
chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till
these evil
times, however, such allegiance had been merely nominal, and the
colonists had ruled themselves, enjoying far more freedom than is
even
yet the
privilege of the native subjects of Great Britain. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 111 | Author: | Headland, Isaac Taylor | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Court Life In China | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE day when one of the princesses was
calling at our home in Peking, I
inquired of her where the Empress
Dowager was born. She gazed at me for a moment
with a queer expression wreathing her features,
as she finally said with just the faintest shadow
of a smile: "We never talk about the early
history of Her Majesty.'' I smiled in return and
continued: "I have been told that she was born
in a small house, in a narrow street inside of the
east gate of the Tartar city—the gate blown up
by the Japanese when they entered Peking in
1900.'' The princess nodded. "I have also
heard that her father's name was Chao, and that
he was a small military official (she nodded again)
who was afterwards beheaded for some neglect
of duty.'' To this the visitor also nodded assent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 113 | Author: | Holmes, Lizzie M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Woman's Future Position in the World | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | TO be strictly logical one should not treat of woman apart from the
rest of the human race, for this is in a manner to admit that women
are a distinct class, not affected by conditions, environment,
etc., as men are. But we find a "woman question" actually
existing. A great deal of discussion has been going on as to what
is proper for woman, what her real nature is, and how many of the
duties and privileges of man she should be admitted to. Women do
not occupy the same position, socially, politically, economically,
or intellectually that men do, and her powers are not equal to her
brother's. She is daily reproached for trying to be other than she
is, and reminded that her very nature forbids her presuming to
climb out of the subserviency and inferiority which are now
undeniably her portion. Thus a "woman question" is forced upon us
whether we will or not. It is to discover, if possible, whether
she may ever become equal to and like man without perverting her
inherent nature, that this inquiry is made. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 118 | Author: | King, Captain Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Custer's Last Battle | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT is hard to say how many years ago the Dakotas of the upper
Mississippi, after a century of warring with the Chippewa nation,
began to swarm across the Missouri in search of the buffalo, and
there became embroiled with other tribes claiming the country
farther west. Dakota was the proper tribal name, but as they
crossed this Northwestern Rubicon into the territory of unknown
foemen they bore with them a title given them as far east as the
banks and bluffs of the Father of Waters. The Chippewas had called
them for years "the Sioux" (Soo), and by that strange un-Indian-sounding title is known to this day the most numerous and powerful
nation of red people—warriors, women, and children—to be found on
our continent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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