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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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Excerpt: The War in the Air by H. G. Wells.

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...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...les—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, “pretty lookin’ fruit, but not what I shou... ... “but there there are limits to the human heart! There are younger nations—living nations! Nations that do not 23 H G Wells snore and gurgle helpless... ...ems wanting early potatoes at once. T om can’t carry half of them.” “We’re living on a volcano,” said Bert, disregarding the suggestion. “At any momen... ...g affair, but in these progressive times you have to make a noise to get a living. It was often hard work, but nevertheless this hiring was a fairly s... ...ts. It was a sprawl of undistinguished popula- tion. There were, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical ce... ...th again we shan’t know what to do with our legs.” “But what’s below us?” “Canada, to the best of my knowledge—and a jolly bleak, empty, inhospitable ...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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...In the history of thought and creation, the decisive events, the great and significant moments, the strongly affirmative stages - then the imposition of the optimizing novelties - have depended on the name and prestige of a...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which g...

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...escu American Research Press Rehoboth 2002 3 This book can be ordered in microfilm format from: Bell and Howell Co. (University of Microf... ...marandache/ ISBN: 1-931233-53-5 Standard Address Number 297-5092 Printed in the United States of America 4 Foreword In the history of thought ... ...ose, we personalize further on. The examples are extremely numerous, even in our nearest past. When we mention a creation - in the largest sense of ... ...tween observer and object). * Abraham Moses proclaims the closing of the museums and the transformation of the artists in programmers of our phanta... ...ort, what else is paradoxism: a modern and violent reaction or a romantic living of the present? It can be both of them, plus a thoroughness, plus a... ...ame” of the author, it is consonant with the writer’s work itself, like a living bond in it: “it is not only the effort the worker makes on his work... ... the antiliterarure and its literature; - fixed inflexible forms and the living face of a death; - the nonstyle style; - poems without verses (... ...butions of genre of authors from: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, England, India, Israel, Eire, Italy, Romania, Russia, Spain... ...Topa, Mihaly Bencze; and, among the Romanians from abroad: Dumitru Ichim (Canada), Dan Romascanu (Denmark), Titu Popescu (Germany), Radu Enescu (Spa...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...other vegetables; * others that derived their substance from the bodies of living animals;** and then again, there were others that glowed all over wi... ...ul Rafflesia Arnaldii. **Schouw advocates a class of plants that grow upon living animals — the Plantae Epizoae. Of this class are the Fuci and Algae.... ...ee pigeons to each square yard, gives 2,230,272,000 Pigeons. — “Travels in Canada and the United States,” by Lieut. F . Hall. 34 Poe in Five V olumes... ...ld thus probably be the last I should obtain—that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more. For several days ensuing, her name was... ...t ministerial power—or purchasing increase of nobility—or collecting large museums of virtu—or playing the munificent patron of letters, of science, o...

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...ll 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 copyright, patent,...

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... be accessed 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 Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ... at Duke are one of the main influences on my work. I am lucky enough to work in the only “Center for the Study of the Public Domain” in the academic w... ...t them on greeting cards—maybe you can quit your day job and actually make a living from your expressive powers. If the market works, if the middlemen... ...ke their unique visions, histories, poems, or songs to the world— and make a living doing so if their work finds favor. Patent law is supposed to give ... ...en imagine it coupled to the efforts of the great state archives and private museums who themselves would be free to do the same thing. Think of the p... ...that it was necessary to encourage innovation. We have extended the terms of living and even of dead authors over works that have already been created... ...nding on where in the world they are sold. Region 1 is the United States and Canada. Region 2 is Japan, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and—biz... ...nd European Models of Database Pro- tection,” paper commissioned by Industry Canada (2001). 4. Matthew Bender & Co. v. West Publishing Co., 158 F .3d ...

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