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...fair by a court. Moreover, the fair use doctrine has a long pedigree and precedents to help inform users as to what types of uses might be fair or ... ...ypes of uses might be fair or not, and one can obtain guidance from these precedents. For example, a “Best Practices in Fair Use” report was recent...

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...the first methodical treatise on the common law suitable for a lay readership since at least the Middle Ages. The common law of England has relied on precedent more than statute and codifications and has been far less amenable than the civil law, developed from the Roman law, to the needs of a treatise. The Commentaries were influential largely because they were in fact re...

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...isfactory. Such a system of Gul. support as advocated above is not without precedent at Williams. The levy- ing of a class ta.x after an aijjjeal, was... ...lec- tions not conducted in accord with the code of rules is not with- out precedent, at least three im- portant class elections in the past year havi... ...meet in the Hpirit that ought to murk intercollegiate contfiBte. We have a precedent for auuh wait- ing. After the Kane trouble with AmherHt in H)UO, ... ..., it was frankly hoped that the other olnsses would follow and establish a precedent for a series of four winter college gatherings. The line of least...

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...Twilight You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone The Dead Emperor As the Greek's Signal Flame The Dismantled Ship Now Precedent Songs, Farewell An Evening Lull Old Age's Lambent Peaks After the Supper and Talk SECOND ANNEX: GOOD-BYE MY FANCY Sail Out for Good, Eidólon Yacht! Lingering Last Drops Good-Bye My Fancy On, On the Same, Ye ...

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..., who advised him as he had advised Torquato Tasso before him, to dignify his native language by employing his talents in bold defiance of custom and precedent. Had Petrarch had the benefit of Manso's advice, his great epic, The Africa, might now eclipse his off-hour doodlings, the sonnets about Laura. The text is the Gutenberg Project's version, corrected in certain place...

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...nt to lead, to chart new ways, to innovate, to modernise, to reform, to set precedents, or to create from scratch. Every act of the narcissist is pe... ...buted by subscription only to dozens of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 – studied in business schools and law faculties across...

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... special attention. Nor is the emergence of this land and naval juggernaut without precedent. Though history rarely repeats itself in details - bot... ... the police especially. The events depicted in the film are not without historical precedent, but the moviemakers got the locations all wrong: nine... ... the Bellona Foundation, a Norwegian environmental group. This will not be without precedent: in a daring air operation, Israeli jets pulverized an... ...distributed by subscription only to dozens of subscribers countrywide. In a legal precedent in 1995 – studied in business schools and law faculties...

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... necessities of the civil war, so that they might not pass into history as precedents for similar acts in time of peace. It is an unquestionable fact ... ... followed the war, more things were done capable of serving as dan- gerous precedents than during the war itself. Thus it may truly be said of him not... ...ession has reached its highest perfection, and centu- ries of learning and precedent are involved in the equip- ment of a lawyer. Dr. Holmes, when ask...

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...." Nolan had never been in such a predicament. No president had. There was no precedent to follow. He felt lost, and hoped to God he had chosen the ...

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...ng before the appearance of their performances; and, resolving to follow a precedent which was so well suited to my present circumstances, I immediate... ...on, which should be rapid in this part; but that doth not weigh much, many precedents occurring for such an interruption: the second and much the grea... ...TER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V Containing justice business; curious precedents of depositions, and other matters necessary to be perused by all...

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...organizations rather as instruments or obstacles than as guiding lines and precedents for its new developing will, its will which will carry it at las... ...his latter expedient is less novel than the former, and it finds a sort of precedent in the legislative restriction of the sale of drink to children a...

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...d bold implies singular intellectual intrepidity. He had neither model nor precedent. The vastness and novelty of the undertaking increase admiration ... ... not a statesman condescended to attend to it; and a legislation without a precedent was produced offhand *Ibid., p. 90. 61 Tocqueville by the imagin... ... of general notions, and is more completely disengaged from the routine of precedent and the egotism of local prejudice; its designs are conceived wit... ... the two countries. The English and the Americans have retained the law of precedents; that is to say, they continue to found their legal opinions and... ...he French advocate inquires what should have been done; the former produce precedents, the latter rea- sons. A French observer is surprised to hear ho... ...an be more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded upon precedents. The indispensable want of legal assistance which is felt in Eng... ...till perpetually changing, its aspect; in which every act of tyranny has a precedent, and every crime an example; in which there is nothing so old tha... ...l aware of the influence which the nature of a country and its politi- cal precedents exercise upon a constitution; and I should re- gard it as a grea... ...hat their country is unlike any other, and that its situation is without a precedent in the world. America is a land of wonders, in which everything i...

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...in the diplomatic. We English, haters and revilers of ourselves beyond all precedent, disparagers of our own eminent advantages beyond all sufferance ... ...rgument which we have ourselves derived from the analogy of all scriptural precedents. But the case is far otherwise as concerns the second prob- lem,... ...y, that of sceptical slights shown to the Oracle, there are some memorable precedents on record. Everybody knows the ridiculous stratagem of Crœsus, t... ...ad the audacity to found a colony without seeking an oracular sanction, no precedent was established; though the journey to Delphi must often have bee... ...bute to the Sultan. So favored, their commerce had flourished be- yond all precedent. And latterly, when the vast extension of European warfare had cr...

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...ETING , W ASHINGTON, AUGUST 6, 1862 FELLOW CITIZENS: I believe there is no precedent for my appearing before you on this occasion, but it is also true... ...ppearing before you on this occasion, but it is also true that there is no precedent for your being here yourselves, and I offer in justification of m...

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...in particular con- cerned about it. He thought it altogether novel and un- precedented for a President or a Presidential candidate to 74 The Writings... ...he requisite power to Congress; and I am not disposed to extend a doubtful precedent beyond its necessity,—the establishment of territorial government... ...d it, ‘case I shall want to borrow it this arternoon.” Acting on this as a precedent, I say, “Here’s your old ‘chalked hat,—I wish you would take it a... ...ases will be decided when they arise. For the latter use, they are called “precedents” and “authorities.” We believe as much as Judge Douglas (perhaps... ...s would be, factious, nay, even revolutionary, not to acquiesce in it as a precedent. 229 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two But when, as is t... ...nstitutionality, in all its features, ought to be considered as settled by precedent, and by the decision of the Su- preme Court. To this conclusion I... ...g the case on this subject, an argument against the bank might be based on precedent. One Congress, in 1791, decided in favor of a bank; another, in 1... ... 1816, decided in its favor. Prior to the present Congress, therefore, the precedents drawn from that course were equal. If we resort to the States, t... ...ve been probably to those in its favor as four to one. There is nothing in precedent, therefore, which, if its authority were admitted, ought to weigh...

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...advance to supreme power amongst men of a new empire, martial be- yond all precedent as regarded means, but not as regarded ends—working in all things... ...ess. The crime being once misappre- hended as a crime, without a name or a precedent, it was inevitable that the punishment, so far as it was expounde... ... to those who could not have com- pelled the fulfilment; we first set this precedent. All nations have now learned that honesty in such cases is event... ...f poverty, to proclaim and consecrate that function by some great memorial precedent. And, ac- cordingly, in testimony of that obligation, the first C... ...f the public necessities, partly from jealousy of estab- lishing operative precedents. For religion, again, protection was more easily obtained in tha...

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... a suspicious incident, quite unheard of. Unheard of, above all; there is no precedent for it, and it is far from creditable … . And so discretion abo... ...ee. One doesn’t know what to think of it, and the worst of it is there is no precedent. If we had a precedent we might have something to go by. But as... ... That would be another novelty and a dan gerous one; and again, there is no precedent for it. If we had any sort of precedent for it, then, to my thi...

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... entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister. There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual w... ...m and water around, and withdraw in confusion. Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strang... ...h out of him, with a ‘First, I will beg you, sir, to inform the House what Precedent we have for the course into which the honourable gentleman would ... ... asking the honourable gentleman to favour him with his own version of the Precedent; sometimes telling the honourable gentleman that he (William Barn... ...hat he (William Barnacle) 399 Little Dorrit – Book One would search for a Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spo... ...hing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no Precedent. But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the... ...f events that the wretched honourable gentleman could pos- sibly produce a Precedent for this—William Barnacle would nevertheless thank the honourable... ...ith him upon that issue, and would tell him to his teeth that there Was NO Precedent for this. It might perhaps have been objected that the William Ba... ...en made, or, if made in a rash mistake, would have remained blank mud. But Precedent and Precipitate to- gether frightened all objection out of most p...

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... entreaties, backed by those of his uncle and sister. There was no want of precedent for his return; it was accounted for to the father in the usual w... ...m and water around, and withdraw in confusion. Such was the dinner without precedent, given by Pancks at Pentonville; and such was the busy and strang... ...h out of him, with a ‘First, I will beg you, sir, to inform the House what Precedent we have for the course into which the honourable gentleman would ... ... asking the honourable gentleman to favour him with his own version of the Precedent; sometimes telling the honourable gentleman that he (William Barn... ...gentleman that he (William Barnacle) 399 Little Dorrit would search for a Precedent; and oftentimes crushing the honourable gentleman flat on the spo... ...hing the honourable gentleman flat on the spot by telling him there was no Precedent. But Precedent and Precipitate were, under all circumstances, the... ...f events that the wretched honourable gentleman could pos- sibly produce a Precedent for this—William Barnacle would nevertheless thank the honourable... ...ith him upon that issue, and would tell him to his teeth that there Was NO Precedent for this. It might perhaps have been objected that the William Ba... ...en made, or, if made in a rash mistake, would have remained blank mud. But Precedent and Precipitate to- gether frightened all objection out of most p...

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...ed to take to abuse, to fill up the time. Now they have such a num- ber of precedents, they have no occasion for abuse.’ Johnson. ‘Nay, Sir, they had ... ...more law 232 Boswell’s Life of Johnson long ago than they have now. As to precedents, to be sure they will increase in course of time; but the more p...

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...ividual tendencies, which at present are still subdued by the influence of precedent and example: and it will require generations more, be fore their...

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...tes— as each State takes whatever laws it may think fit to adopt. Even the precedents of our courts are held as pre- cedents in the American courts, u...

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...s are, in the main, arbitrary; they are supported neither by principle nor precedent. It has indeed happened, that governments of this kind have gener... ... no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no govern- ment established of which an ... ...o apology for having dwelt so long on the con- templation of these federal precedents. Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are ... ...rstandings. But however little this objection may be countenanced, even by precedents among ourselves, it may be satisfactory to take a nearer view of... ...in the breast of rulers towards the constitution of a country, and forms a precedent for other breaches where the same plea of necessity does not exis... ... plants in the Constitution itself necessary usurpa- tions of power, every precedent of which is a germ of unnec- essary and multiplied repetitions. I... ... spect, is immenmorial, and was only disputed, “contrary to all reason and precedent,’’ as Blackstone vol. i., page 262, ex- presses it, by the Long P... ... is so evident in itself, and it is, at the same time, so consonant to the precedents of the State constitutions in general, that little need be said ... ...es-General of the Netherlands, did not an example at home render for- eign precedents unnecessary. To require a fixed proportion of the whole body wou...

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...of timber—but this time going outward—as our capital emerges from this un- precedented inundation of loyalty. The most elaborately con- ceived, the mo... ... money or stuff. It is manifest that the next naval war will be beyond all precedent a war of mechanisms, giv- ing such scope for invention and scient... ...s and display themselves wise, capable and heroic— beyond any aristocratic precedent. The alternative, if it is an alternative, is resignation—to the ... ...nd perhaps con- vey my conviction that our present Labour troubles are un- precedented, and that they mean the end of an epoch. The supply of good-tem... ... of practical scientific work; and it was natural he should turn to it for precedents in sociological research. His mind was invaded by the idea of cl... ...assion, their very silences shape a Utopia. Why should they not follow the precedent of Aristotle, and accept Utopias as material? There used to be in... ...moments of reflection will suffice to demonstrate that. This is beyond any precedent an age of change, change in the appliances of life, in the averag... ... and aimless expenditure, of a class irresponsible and wasteful beyond all precedent. One gets a Zolaesque picture of that aspect in Mr. Upton Sinclai... ...xpenditure; in the end they mean possibilities of de- struction beyond all precedent. Such things as the _Zeppe- lin_ and the _Ville de Paris_ are onl...

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...nception so plausible at the first glance, and for which there are so many precedents in history, might perhaps, in the general chaos of political opi... ...ocated not only seems the best in itself, but is that for which historical precedent and actual brilliant success can to the greatest extent be pleade... ...kes it more difficult to resist; each of these, in suc cession, becomes a precedent for more, until the standard of proficiency sinks gradually to so...

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... with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent and make them the standard of their prerogative—as if what had be... ...hief and op pression has light only on some few, but in such cases as the precedent and consequences seem to threaten all, and they are persuaded in ...

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...f the Irish people. But the idea was new and strange; there was no English precedent for such a proceeding: and the profound ignorance of English poli...

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...usual at that period in the province, happened to 53 Hawthorne be without precedent in this parish. The muffled female, who had hitherto sat motionle...

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...d the president. FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 405 • There are precedents for surrendering authority for joint planning while preserving a... ... FinalCh12_13.4pp 7/17/04 4:14 PM Page 415 • The post-9/11 Afghanistan precedent of using joint CIA-military teams for covert and clandestine oper...

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...ardie. I do not say I was in love; I am far from certain that there is any precedent for a pocket-handkerchief’s being in love at all, and I am quite ... ...ry heart ached. Poor child! Little did she think that she was establishing precedents against herself, by which further and destructive exertions migh...

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...t form of sentimental decentralization was still in its early stages, and, precedents being few, and the desire to set an example contagious, the matt...

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...t was the first fast ever thought of in the province, the secre tary had no precedent from which to draw the proclama tion. My education in New Engl...

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...eset by the bravoes of his enemy and slain. My lord of Burgundy set an ill precedent in this deed, as he found some years after on the bridge of Monte...