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... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...

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...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...ple are attracted in a greater or less degree, on which mine had dwelt for years, and which have some interest for all. The greater part of the descri... ... the English family travelling by this carriage, inside and out, should be starting for Italy on a Sunday morning, of all good days in the week, than ... ...ere Napoleon studied; and the noble river, bringing at every winding turn, new beauties into view. There lay before us, that same afternoon, the broke... ...ait for an opportu nity to hiss, and spare the actresses as little as the actors. But, as there is nothing else of a public nature at which they are ... ...w, the sun is going down, in such magnificent array of red, and green, and golden light, as neither pen nor pencil could depict; and to the ringing of... ...e, and having no counter parts in Rome or any other part of the habitable globe. My recent mention of the Carnival, reminds me of its being said to b... ... some other member of the Calendar, but he seems to threaten it. Where the winners may be, nobody knows. They certainly are not present; the general d...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work. The head...

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...Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated from the French Translated... ...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...Chapter One W E WERE IN CLASS when the head-master came in, followed by a “new fellow,” not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant car- ryin... ...y go of a com- mercial traveller. Once married, he lived for three or four years on his wife’s fortune, dining well, rising late, smoking long porcela... ...r have the means to send him to a public school, to buy him a practice, or start him in business? Besides, with cheek a man always gets on in the worl... ...c class, in the ballads she sang, there was nothing but little angels with golden wings, madonnas, lagunes, gon- doliers;-mild compositions that allow... ...iosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor shoot, and one day... ...se Elizabeth Leroux!” said the councillor, who had taken the list of prize-winners from the president; and, looking at the piece of paper and the old ... ...otruded from her mouth; her eyes, as they rolled, grew paler, like the two globes of a lamp that is going out, so that one might have thought her alre...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of ...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... ...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ...said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert who had been in two years. “No white women in the country then, and Mason wanted to get mar... ...s the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her... ...fully out of the cabin, to find his dogs harnessed and everything ready for the start. The company wished him good luck and a short chase, while Father... ...adow! It was exactly midday. They jerked their heads hurriedly to the south. A golden rim peeped over the mountain’s snowy shoulder, smiled upon them ... ...isters came out, and with other children played noisily about him. An electric globe on the corner lighted their frolics. He was peevish and irritable... ...e from that first plunge into the un derworld he discovered that he was a good actor and demonstrated the plasticity of his nature. He was himself ast... ...the ringside proclaiming that he could not last seven rounds, or even six. The winners of this, now that their cash risk was happily settled, had join...