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...volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 18, 2011. Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's rei...

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... Praise for Theological Immortal Romance Theological Immortal Romance is the type of book you can’t put down. I was drawn to the spectacular way K... ...se for Theological Immortal Romance Theological Immortal Romance is the type of book you can’t put down. I was drawn to the spectacular way Kevin expr... ... his thoughts on love. Each chapter gets better and better. This book is one of its kind and will definitely be a winner in the hearts of all. JT Tale... ... and better. This book is one of its kind and will definitely be a winner in the hearts of all. JT Talent and Casting (John Thomas) Casting Director -... ...evin Brian Wright is a genius, what a fantastic book. I am a very big fan of poetry and this book made me cry and a few other emotions I thought I los... ...d so much more. It takes you where no book has gone before. This book brings poetry to a new level. Perry Facchiano - OZ - Find Me Guilty When I read ... ...rite indeed! Our own King of Poetry!! Excellent writing. Angelina Grazo “Her Kingdom of Heaven”: I have read this several times now…each time took me ... ...HED BY PUBLISHAMERICA, LLLP. www.publishamerica.com Baltimore Printed in the United States of America To my dearly loved CONTENTS Acknowledgments ... ... hearts, crowns of eternity above her stars fall within the hands of Saints. Laureates breathe still as angels, for the Lord is feared upon his presen...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...ate worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each no... ...an expert knowledge of place and people.” MICHAEL FRAENKEL, novelist and poet: “His is the authenticity of the true and original creator. Bartlett ... ...est, most vital writing I have seen for some time.” PEARL S. BUCK, Nobel Laureate in Literature: “He is an excellent writer.” HERBERT GORMAN, nove... ...6 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006030830 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication ... ...ayed on his dining room walls. Of hide and metal, in various shapes, they united the room and its glazing lamps and candles. I felt myself the focal...

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...In Christ’s Journal, the author takes a daring step in this unique novel and places the reader for the first time in the shoes of The Fisherman. In this finely crafted and historically realistic portrait of the ancient Biblical world, Bartle...

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...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ...uman Values 1 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 4 A Look at Human Values by Lemuel Gulliver XVI ... ... ISBN 978-0-9823076-3-2 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS IN THE HOTEL .................................................................... ...—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING ............... 24 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES ......................... 28 SELF-CENTERED A... ...o most religions have had similar mystical experiences--the Hindu who has united with the Brahman through years of correct meditation. The holy Jew,... ...rse from the sub-atomic levels to the galaxies, and from amoebas to Nobel laureates strongly implies, if not necessitates, a creating mind. ... ... couldn‘t have foreseen and probably would disapprove. ―One of our poets put it this way: Is there heaven or is there hell? No book nor sage... ...e influenced positively by uplifting ideas, like our Constitution and the poetry of Burns, we can be influenced negatively by the Marquis de Sade an... ...is aborted. Still, highly respected religious leaders, including two Nobel laureates, have opened the door to admit abortion in some circumstances. B...

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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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...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... .../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...essed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Con... ...se would not have—Drew Endy and Randy Rettberg in synthetic biol- ogy, Nobel laureates Sir John Sulston and Harold Varmus in genomics and biology more... ...f earnest essays and saccharine greeting cards and scantily clad singers and poetic renditions of Norse myths—will be decentral- ized to the people wh... ...37278_u01.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page 23 more allegory, one more life of a poet, one more imitation of Juvenal? I firmly believe not. I firmly believe... ...friend-of-the-court brief from seventeen economists, several of them No- bel laureates. 30 The economists made exactly Macaulay’s argument, though in ...

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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ... to d«te Sfiring Street, WlllUmatown CONSTITUTIONS SIMILAR Germany and the United States Compared by Dr. Hoetzsch IVofesHur Oltci IloiilzKcli, who WHH... ...; among them his costly three-volume edi- tion of " Butterflies of Eastern United States and Canada," and his largest work •• Nomenclatura Zoologicus.... ...y one turns from it a little surprised that it is not better. Contemporary poetry, both in the Lit. and out of it, is, to my thinking, spending too mu... ...rose. The Scotch elders in " The Little Minister " would certainly call it poetry, because every line begins with a capital letter. It contains, moreo... ...e mag- azine. Mr. HoUey's "America; 11108" is a pleading for an Ameri- can laureate who shall sing of the men who : "liave been laboring to set aright...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and ...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...ublication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ION It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this obj... ... visit the country with this object before the in- testine troubles of the United States government had com- menced. I have not allowed the division a... ...ot called on Mr. Plaistead to keep an American hotel, he might have been a poet. My traveler, however, unless time were plenty with him, would pass Mr... ...ish. It was some fine fury of patriotic feeling which enabled the national poet to put into the mouth of every English- man that horrible prayer with ... ...e the nobler mistress, must wear the willow. Last and greatest is the poet-laureate of the West, for Mr. Longfellow also lives at Cambridge. I am not ...