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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ...0510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States Senator... ... worthy of further study. The Office was pleased that on January 5, 2005 Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy asked the Register of Copyrights to... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyrig...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility to cover t...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ...0510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States Senator... ... worthy of further study. The Office was pleased that on January 5, 2005 Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy asked the Register of Copyrights to... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyrig...

...We also recommend one other threshold requirement for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course o...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...free anthologies here: http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... So reveal documents released in January 2003 by the Public Record Office in the United Kingdom. Trundle is described as a "very charming adventu... ...to (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that Atlanti... ...rants flooded the new state. Young men in Canada West left in droves for the United States due to a shortage of agricultural land. The 1849 Gold ... ...ights measure. This is the American filibuster record. In 1964, a group of southern senators led by Russell Long of Louisiana extended the debate on... ...authors of scathing epigrams against him. Claudius, by comparison, has executed 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of t... ...s and studies for Leonardo's works of art and engineering are found on his shopping lists, personal notes, and personal expenditure ledgers. No ...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Empire and Wars

By: Sam Vaknin

...ija Rangelovska A Narcissus Publications Imprint, Skopje 2006 First published by United Press International – UPI Not for Sale! Non-commercial ed... ...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...ww.ce-review.org/authorarchives/vaknin_archive/vaknin_main.html Visit Sam Vaknin's United Press International (UPI) Article Archive – Click HERE! ... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ... O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the Un... ... War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is mad... ...nipulated the commodities markets, lent money at usurious rates, and colluded with Senators and office holders. Sallust, the Roman historian, blam... ...ocracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddit... ...ar 2001 report of the "Ministry" of Reconstruction and Development (MORAD) in Irbil lists thousands of housing units, dormitories, schools, and gue...

The antecedents and aftermath of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the role of the United States in international affairs.

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ...gister of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence ... ...of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independence Avenue ... ...n, DC 20510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States ... ...0510 The Honorable Patrick Leahy 433 Russell Senate Office Building United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 ORRIN G. HATCH United States Senator... ... worthy of further study. The Office was pleased that on January 5, 2005 Senators Orrin Hatch and Patrick Leahy asked the Register of Copyrights to... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copy...

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The World Factbook: 1987

By: Central Intelligence Agency

... Factbook 1987 CP/1S WF 87-001 US Government officials should obtain copies of The World Factbook directly from their own organization or through lia... ... channels from the Central Intelligence Agency. Requesters in the Department of Defense may obtain copies from: Defense Intelligence Agency RTS-2C Was... ...elow. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to me... ...he World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i 11 n n style, format, coverage, ^ designed to meet thei... ... Tunisia 246 Turkey 247 Turks and Caicos Islands 249 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257... ...9 Tuvalu 250 U Uganda 251 United Arab Emirates 252 United Kingdom 253 United States 255 Uruguay 257 Vanuatu 259 Vatican City 260 Venezuela 261 Vietnam... ...rance; represented by three deputies in the French National Assembly and two senators in the Senate; last Assembly election, 21 June 1981 Capital: Bas... ...of members of the local General Council and the locally elected deputies and senators to the French parlia- ment; judicial, under jurisdiction of Fren... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH...

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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...n Adobe Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Libr... ... Garamond type by The Composing Room of Michigan, Inc. Printed in the United States of America by R. R. Donnelley, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Library of ... ...ght welcome them—they also arise within technology-embracing au- thoritarian states, because the technology is exported. A lockdown on PCs and a corre... ...4 By one credible estimate, there will be over 290 million PCs in use in the United States by 2010 and 2 bil- lion PCs in use worldwide by 2011. 75 In... ...es facilitates the technology’s deployment in unanticipated ways. T able 4.1 lists examples of generative tools. For comparison, the table also includ... ...SSCA)); Letter from Shari Steele, Ex- ecutive Dir., Elec. Freedom Found., to Senators Fritz Hollings and T ed Stevens (Nov. 5, 2001), available at htt... .... L. R. 1699 (2006). 96. For example, dodgeball.com combines online friend lists and cell-phone text messag- ing to allow users to advertise their w...

...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... .... Cause and Effect can also be defined by Newton’s Third Law of Motion which states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... .... Then there would be no black hole at all. Newton’s Third Law of Motion states: “For every action: there is an equal and opposite reaction.” ... ...hese two sources. If Russia had not bankrupted itself by trying to match the United States in its atomic nuclear capabilities for global destruction... ...hat the highest concentration is at the top, not at the bottom. Today in the United States: 1% of its population holds 40% of its wealth, 4% of its ... ... respectable for 11,500 years. So apparently, 11,500 years of historians, and senators, and kings and queens, and priests, and leaders, and all the ... ...nt from Santa. The song still sings of that time when rich people had secret lists… which people were favored and which were not. The evil of thi... ... beings: by creating a myth based upon secrecy, stealth, and greed, and secret lists of who has been naughty and nice. It worked. The starving po...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...yers occasions urging him still upon any accident to be ready to enter the lists: and the unexpected replies and answers of his adverse parlie, do of... ...ces where the Portugales abated the pride of the Indians, they found some states observing this universall and inviolalile law, that what enemie soev... ...brio sibi habere videtur. -- 1 LUCRET. 1. v. 1243. A hidden power so mens states hath out-worne Faire swords, fierce scepters, signes of honours bor... ...uld presently linde the spring and motion of it. Our mindes have jumped so unitedly together, they have with so fervent an affection consideredof eac... ...epared to defeat himselfe, whilest he expected to heare newes whether the Senators, whom he caused to retire were lanched out from the haven of Utic... ...have, that he will once more adventure to charge these re-enforced und re-united forces, and new armed wit h despite and vengeance, that durst not, ... ... Sit licet infesto pollice turba minax. The Fencer hopes, though down in lists he lye, And people with turn'd hand threat's he must dye. All thin...

...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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The Constitution of the United St States Tes of Americ America, A, 1787

By: Anonymous

...THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED S... ...ITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED ST THE UNITED ST THE UNITED ST THE UNITED ST THE UNITED STA A A A AT... ...D ST THE UNITED ST THE UNITED ST THE UNITED STA A A A ATES TES TES TES TES OF AMERIC OF AMERIC OF AMERIC OF AMERIC OF AMERICA, 1787 A, 1787 A, 1787 A,... ...1787 WITH THE 26 AMENDMENTS This publication of “The Constitution of The United States of America, 1787 with the 27 Amend ments” is part of The Pen... ...TH THE 26 AMENDMENTS This publication of “The Constitution of The United States of America, 1787 with the 27 Amend ments” is part of The Pennsylvan... ...portunity university. This publication of “The Constitution of the United States” is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Por... ...ment. Section 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof, for six Years;... ...llots the person voted for as Vice President; and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for a... ...ns voted for as Vice President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign, and certify, and transmit, sealed, 20 The U.S. Const...

Excerpt: This publication of ?The Constitution of the United States?.

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The 9/11 Commission Report Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

By: Thomas H. Kean

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–... ...(1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992–1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda’s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996–1998) ... ...MS 215 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and... ...5 7.1 First Arrivals in California 215 7.2 The 9/11 Pilots in the United States 223 7.3 Assembling the Teams 231 7.4 Final Strategies and Tactic... ...e reform proposals of the intelligence community, such as those offered by Senators Boren and McCurdy. That said, Congress still took too little actio... ... In the first months of 1999, the Joint Staff had developed broader target lists to undertake a “focused campaign” against the infrastructure of Bin L... ...uld have suggested changes to fix glaring vulnerabilities—expanding no-fly lists, searching passen- gers identified by the CAPPS screening system, dep...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...

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North America Volume Two

By: Anthony Trollope

...ublication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..................................... 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ................................................................ .............................. 164 CHAPTER IX: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES ....................................................................... ......................... 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: ... .................. 226 CHAPTER XI: THE LA W COURTS AND LA WYERS OF THE UNITED STATES ........................................... 242 CHAPTER XII: THE FIN... ...building, therefore, is wrong side foremost, and all mankind who enter it, Senators, Representatives, and judges included, go in at the back door. Of ... ... of the House calls out the names of the different Senators, and makes out lists of the votes according to the separate answers given by the members. ... ... legal appropriation; no title of nobility shall be granted. The above are lists or catalogues of the powers which Congress has, and of the powers whi...

Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

............................................................................................................................. 30 CHAPTER III: THE CAUSES OF THE WAR .......................................................................................................... 47 CHAPTER IV: WASHINGTON TO ST. LOUIS .......................................................................

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e eleven years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our writ... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...on, all of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result... ...than a year; the former usually sit two or three years. By granting to the senators the privilege of being chosen for several years, and being renewed... ... be limited to a nar- row sphere; but when the chief magistrate enters the lists, he borrows the strength of the government for his own pur- poses. In...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes Volume 7 of 7

By: Abraham Lincoln

...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of A... ...itings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...THE HOUSE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meet... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ccordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, 1863. 7 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: ... ...slature. All such are radical and administration men. The election of two Senators from this place on Thursday will prob- ably turn upon this thing.”... ...AMESON, Jefferson City, Mo.: Y ours saying Brown and Henderson are elected Senators is received. I understand this is one and one. If so it is knocki... ... of intention may be made or naturalizations effected to send periodically lists of the names of the persons naturalized or declaring their intention ...

...altimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported the evidence....

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...umulating, not from the ranks of the half-freed colored people of the free states, but from the very depths of slavery itself; the indestructible equa... ...rgan of the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on ... ... the downtrodden, edited and published by one of themselves, in the United States. 13 Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his ret... ... Frederick Douglas The result of this visit was, that on his return to the United States, he established a newspaper. This proceeding was sorely again... ... I met boys about Bethel church, or any of our play-grounds, I entered the lists with them in the art of writing, and would make the letters which I h... ...es, a pro-slavery, political board of health is established at Washington. Senators Hale, Chase, and Sumner are robbed of a part of their senatorial d... ... only be done efficiently on committees; and, in saying to these honorable senators, you shall not serve on the committees of this body, the sla- very...

Excerpt: My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas.

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

...ublication Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ofessional landlady for the blessing of the par- son, and are legitimately united. Women have won round fools to give way in that way. And quite right... ...ord, you have dozens to choose from leave me my one if we are to enter the lists.’ ‘We are, it seems; unless you consent to take the run to Paris. You... ...On that subject, Aminta said she did not know what to think. Now, if a man states the matter he thinks, and a woman does but listen, whether inclining... ...assing from the living to the dead, from the dead to the living, they were united in his heart. Her brevity of tone, and her speech, so practical upon... ...ur- gent, the sapper of her character; and as we see in certain disorderly States a curative incendiarism usurp the functions of the sluggish citizen,... ... understands what I say, and I learn from him. I don’t learn much from our senators, or great lawyers, great 163 George Meredith doctors, professors,... ... they ‘d like the world to be. We don’t agree about a lady. You ‘re in the lists, lance in rest, all for chivalry. You ‘re a man, and a young man. Hav...

Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity.... ...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...n something like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanist... ...hing like this: “Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States. “Whaling V oyage by One Ismael. “Bloody Battle in Affghanistan.” Th... ...rns, and de- stroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the robes of Senators and Judges. Delight,—top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledg... ... slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro lik... ...pon which Linnaeus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, ... ...e- landic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of un- couth names. But ...

Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

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The Prime Minister

By: Anthony Trollope

...eries Publication The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ad gone rather deep into poli- tics, and that he was entitled to call many statesmen asses 15 Anthony Trollope because they did not see the things wh... ... lous of matrons are talked out of their virtue; the most expe- rienced of statesmen are talked out of their principles. And who can really calculate ... ...ernment, —the work of getting a team together had been accomplished by the united energy of the two dukes and other friends. The filling up of the gre... ...was not one there in the room who did not know that it was the wish of the united families that Arthur Fletcher should marry Emily Wharton, and also t... ...to an unfortunate fourth; —and in the morning she would work hard with her lists, seeing who had come to her and who had stayed away, and arranging wh... ...wcomers were soon allowed to enter the august conclave, and the five great senators greeted each other cor- dially. ‘I hope we have not come inopportu... .... And so the Government was formed, and the crisis was again over, and the lists which the newspapers had been publishing for the last three days were...

Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ght expensive ties “and could pay cash for ‘em, too, by golly;” and at the United Cigar Store, with its crimson and gold alertness, he reflected, “Won... ...ollars—bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at ... ...bet there isn’t more than five per cent. of the people in the whole United States that make more than Uncle George does, by golly! Right up at the top... ...ere d’ you think you’d be if it wasn’t for our capital behind you, and our lists of properties, and all the prospects we find for you? All you got to ... ...his evening and, after an adequate sketch of the day’s progressive weather-states, his four-hundred- and-fifty-dollar fee, his lunch with Paul Rieslin... ...of the Presbyte- rian Church determined his every religious belief and the senators who controlled the Republican Party decided in little smoky rooms ... ...- ments was the dun background of office-routine: leases, sales-contracts, lists of properties to rent. The evenings of oratory and committees and lod...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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Waverley or Tis Sixty Years Since

By: Sir Walter Scott

...n Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nner. And here the in- structor had to combat another propensity too often united with brilliancy of fancy and vivacity of talent,—that indo- lence, n... ...ce of the rector, the curate, the clerk, and the whole congregation of the united parishes of Waverley cum Beverley. I beg pardon, once and for all, o... ...nd Bradwardine, it being the crest of a gigantic Dane, whom he slew in the lists in the Holy Land, on a quarrel touching the chastity of the Emperor’s... ...not of purses and claymores, while I return to do the final honours to the senators of the tribe of Ivor.’ So saying, he left the room. The conversati... ...l, sympathized little in the disappointment of this selfish and interested statesman; and he retired to the country under the comfortable reflection, ... ...egarded her with a grim and ire- foreboding countenance, while some of the senators of the village hastened to interpose. ‘Whisht, gudewife; is this a... ...ench prisoners. May repose and blessings attend the ashes of the patriotic statesman, who, amongst his last services to Scot- land, interposed to prev...

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