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...s 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinating case studies, Boyle explains why gene sequences, basic business ideas and pairs of musical notes are now owned, why jazz might be illegal if it ...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...ge and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is... ...ll A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, t... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell, the Pennsylvania... ...ylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara ... ...n come the Russians upon us, the country is over- run, and the campaign of 1813 begins in earnest. One fine morning comes an order; we are to be on th... ...at had happened. “So it befell that all through the disastrous campaign of 1813 I had a woman to look after, to find quarters for her, and to see that...

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...Excerpt: The First Part of Henry the Sixth; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Dead March. Enter the Funerall of King Henry the Fifth, attended on by the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke of Gloster, Protector; the Duke of Exeter Warwicke, the Bishop of Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. Bedford. Hung be y heavens with black, yield day to night; Comets impo...

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...The first Part of Henry the Sixt. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Edition... ...d March. 3 Enter the Funerall of King Henry the Fift, attended on by 4 the Duke of Bedford, Regent of France; the Duke 5 of Gl... ...ted French, 34 Coniurers and Sorcerers, that afraid of him, 35 By Magick Verses haue contriu’d his end. 36 Winch. He was a King,... ...rg. Speake on, but be not ouer- tedious. 1636 Pucell. Looke on thy Country, look on fertile France, - 36 - The first Part of Henry the Sixt S... ... That doth presume to boast of Gentle blood. 1791 K. Staine to thy Countrymen, thou hear’st thy doom: 1792 Be packing therefore, thou that... ...rgundy reuolt? 1812 Glo. He doth my Lord, and is become your foe. 1813 King. Is that the worst this Letter doth containe? - 40 - The ... ... Ile either make thee stoope, and bend thy knee, 2397 Or sacke this Country with a mutiny. Exeunt Scoena Tertia. 2399 Enter Charles, B...

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...nic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsy... ...tronic transmission, in any way. Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...equal opportunity university. 3 Tocqueville Democracy In America Volume 1 By Alexis de Tocqueville T ranslator – Henry Reeve Book One Introduction Sp... ...re fully equal to his task. He began with the physical ge- ography of this country, and examined the characteristics of 6 Democracy in America the pe... ...y to a peculiar people, or that it would be impracticable in any different country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the Amer... ...eat majority of cases, it will be decided honestly and for the good of the country. In such meetings, there is always a spirit of loyalty to the State... ...mited monarchies the power is divided between *See the Act of February 27, 1813. “General Collection of the Laws of Massachusetts,” vol. ii. p. 331. I... ...resentatives in Congress. This number continued to increase until the year 1813, when it reached to twenty-three; from that time it began to de- creas... ...e contrary direction: in 1790 it had ten rep- resentatives in Congress; in 1813, twenty-seven; in 1823, thirty-four; and in 1833, forty. The State of ...

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...Madame Firmiani by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Madame Firmiani by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ... for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Madame Firmiani by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva- nia... ...iable, therefore, to be totally misjudged by Monsieur de Bourbonne, an old country magnate, who had reason to think a great deal about her during the ... ...nvisible Firmiani (then a highly respectable individual in the forties) in 1813, at the age of sixteen, she must be at least twenty-eight in 1825. How... ...ither lost or stolen, or have gone astray during the troubles in Greece,—a country where registers are not kept as they are in France, and where we ha...

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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac Translated By Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...cumference of fifteen or twenty miles. The passion of the Parisian for the country is such that local enterprise could successfully compete with the L... ...ndulgence in that respect which won for them the grateful affection of the country-people, and also violent remon- strances on the part of strangers a... ...not infrequently enabled Pierrotin to pocket two fares for one place, if a countryman came early and wanted a seat already booked and paid for by some... ...ed at him. “At eighteen I enlisted as a private for the famous campaign of 1813; but I was present at only one battle, that of Hanau, where I was prom... ... all to myself, I went off to 50 A Start in Life the wars as a private in 1813. Well, to go back to the time I returned to Greece; you wouldn’t belie...

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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... .......................................................................... 63 By the River. ................................................................ ......................................................................... 305 BY THE RIVER. ................................................................ ..................................................................... 313 THE COUNTRY SCHOOLMASTER. ........................................................ ...known, and are considered as the most delightful of his works. Yet in this country, this kindred country, sprung from the same stem, and so strongly r... ...on. At the time of its publication, comparatively little was known in this country of the incidents of his career, and my sketch was avowedly written ... ... also be thou Creator of days bright and glorious; Life and Eternity this! 1813. 63 Goethe To the Distant One. AND have I lost thee evermore? Hast th... ...ng down to keep far, 126 Goethe And make but the future thine own. 1813. General Confession. In this noble ring to-day Let my warning shame ye... ...er heeds he; The moment that he bears the bell, No other summons needs he. 1813. FAITHFUL ECKART. “OH, would we were further! Oh, would we were home, ...

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ey A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...niversity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedication To Helene. The t... ...n named Sauviat, a hawker or peddler who, from 1786 to 1793, travelled the country over a radius of a hundred and fifty miles around Auvergne, exchang... ...he since famous firm of Bresac. Tired of frequenting fairs and roaming the country, the Auvergnat settled at Limoges, where he married, in 1797, the d... ...d been carrying on his trade of old-iron dealer, after ceasing to roam the country as a peddler. Sauviat was fifty years of age when he married old Ch... ...rance will be without horses, as Napo- 182 The Village Rector leon was in 1813, when, being reduced to those of France only, he could not profit by h...

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Excerpt: Tales for Fifteen: Or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper.

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...Tales for Fifteen: or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper (writing under the pseudonym of “Jane Morgan”) A P... ... Classics Series Publication Tales for Fifteen: Or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...nic transmission, in any way. Tales for Fifteen: Or, Imagination and Heart by James Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...uthors” which also included “The Block-House”, by William Leggett and “The Country Cousin”. (London: John Cunningham, 72 pp., 1841 [Series: The Novel... ...’s little-known but very funny “The Heroine; or, Adventures of Cherubina” (1813) fall within the genre. “Heart”, a slim (in- deed, truncated) account ... ...r of the revolution, and at a time when the intellect of the women of this country by no means received that attention it is thought necessary to best... ... future mothers of our families at the present hour; and when, indeed, the country 9 Tales for Fifteen itself required too much of the care of her ru...

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...CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER by Thomas De Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION C... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Class... ...n originally to proceed to Westmoreland, both from the love I bore to that country and on other personal accounts. Accident, however, gave a different... ...ly diet. But now comes a different era. Move on, if you please, reader, to 1813. In the summer of the year we have just quitted I have suffered much i... ...particularly notice. Whether this illness of 1812 had any share in that of 1813 I know not; but so it was, that in the latter year I was attacked by a... ... morality. Whether desperate or not, however, the issue of the struggle in 1813 was what I have mentioned, and from this date the reader is to conside... ...ny effect whatever; and this at an advanced age. I have an anecdote from a country surgeon, however, which sinks Mr. Harriott’s case into a trifle; an...

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Excerpt: St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...knave? Thou naughty knave, what Trade? Cobl. Nay I beseech you Sir, be not out with me: yet if you be out Sir, I can mend you. Mur. What mean?st thou by that? Mend mee, thou sawcy Fellow? Cob. Why sir, Cobble you. Fla. Thou art a Cobler, art thou? Cob. Truly sir, all that I live by, is with the Aule: I meddle with no Tradesmans matters, nor women?s matters; but withal I am...

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...THE TRAGEDIE OF IVLIVS CÆSAR. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Edition... ... if you be out Sir, I can mend you. 23 Mur. What mean’st thou by that? Mend mee, thou 24 sawcy Fellow? 25 Cob. Why sir, C... ... Thou art a Cobler, art thou? 27 Cob. Truly sir, all that I liue by, is with the Aule: I 28 meddle with no Tradesmans matters, nor wom... ... That needs must light on this Ingratitude. 63 Fla. Go, go, good Countrymen, and for this fault 64 Assemble all the poore men of your ... ...rds, and to steele with valour 753 The melting Spirits of women. Then Countrymen, 754 What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause 755 ... ... So often shall the knot of vs be call’d, 1334 The Men that gaue their Country liberty. 1335 Dec. What, shall we forth? 1336 Cassi... ... the people 1812 How I had moued them. Bring me to Octauius. Exeunt 1813 Enter Cinna the Poet, and after him the Plebeians. 1814 Ci...

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... I’am out of patience. 65 An. We are meerly cheated of our liues by drunkards, 66 This wide- chopt- rascall, would thou mightst lye dr... ... Scena Secunda. 81 Enter Prospero and Miranda. 82 Mira. If by your Art (my deerest father) you haue 83 Put the wild waters in th... ...e yeeres old. 130 Mira. Certainely Sir, I can. 131 Pros. By what? by any other house, or person? 132 Of any thing the Image, te... ...s put on, 1803 And these fresh Nimphes encounter euery one 1804 In Country footing. 1805 Enter certaine Reapers (properly habited:) they i... ... minute of their plot 1812 Is almost come: Well done, auoid: no more. 1813 Fer. This is strange: your fathers in some passion 1814 Tha... ...: 1916 Wit shall not goe vn- rewarded while I am King of this 1917 Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent passe 1918 of pate:... ...nhabits heere: some heauenly power guide vs 2063 Out of this fearefull Country. 2064 Pro. Behold Sir King 2065 The wronged Duke of Mi...

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...W ITHIN THE T IDES Four Stories by Joseph Conrad from the 1919 J. M. Dent edition A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC... ...A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...fellows drift in and out of this room. Waifs and strays from home, from up-country, from the Pacific. And, by the way, last time you were here you pic... ...indomitable energy, etc., and who is now working for the prosperity of our country in another way on his Malata plantation … And, by the by, how’s the... ...now and then to an old retired butler of his late father, somewhere in the country, forbidding him at the same time to let any one know of his whereab... ...attractive at first sight. But in one place the statement that 96 in A.D. 1813 the writer was twenty-two years old caught my eye. Two and twenty is a... ...t I can think of) could have been given a more lively appearance. “In A.D. 1813, I was twenty-two years old,” he begins earnestly and goes on with eve...

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...The Collection of Antiquities by Honore de Balzac Translated by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...tate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...toothache. The house of 5 Balzac d’Esgrignon, buried in its remote border country, was pre- served as the charred piles of one of Caesar’s bridges ar... ...he was answerable for his March. The reverence in which he was held by the countryside saved his head; but the hatred of the genuine sans-culottes was... ...ignon family with the smothered, all- absorbing hate only to be found in a country town. His re- buff had simply ruined him with the malicious provinc... ...s and insignificant in the presence of that proud court.” The disasters of 1813 and 1814, which brought about the downfall of Napoleon, gave new life ...

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...THE TRAGEDIE OF MACBETH. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Edition... ... King. What bloody man is that? he can report, 19 As seemeth by his plight, of the Reuolt 20 The newest state. 21 Mal. T... ...e cold. 76 Norway himselfe, with terrible numbers, 77 Assisted by that most disloyall Traytor, 78 The Thane of Cawdor, began a dism... ...me, that a swift blessing 1523 May soone returne to this our suffering Country, 1524 Vnder a hand accurs’d. 1525 Lord. Ile send my Pra... ... - 41 - The Tragedie of Macbeth Shakespeare: First Folio Scaena Tertia. 1813 Enter Malcolme and Macduffe. 1814 Mal. Let vs seeke out som... ..., 1849 What euer I shall thinke. 1850 Macd. Bleed, bleed poore Country, 1851 Great Tyrrany, lay thou thy basis sure, 1852 For good... ...: 1858 I speake not as in absolute feare of you: 1859 I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake, 1860 It weepes, it bleeds, and each n...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...eley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ...eciated, more clearly than other men, the havoc wrought in the mind of our country by the existence of four distinct political sys- tems. I cannot, th... ... to Paris to organize fresh troops, and to ask further sacrifices from the country. The poor mother was then plunged into very different anxi- eties. ... ...pe to the Imperial Lyceum at Saint-Cyr, and six months later, in November, 1813, he appointed him sub-lieutenant in a regiment of cavalry. Philippe sp... ... whether Philippe gambled. Once restored to his rank under the flag of his country, he would perhaps abandon a vice only taken up from idleness. Agath... ...r grandson, Francois Hochon. Hochon’s eldest son was taken by the draft of 1813, which drew in the sons of well-to-do families who had escaped the reg...

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...The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania S... ... not, however, seriously alarmed the bourgeois of Arcis. By canvassing the country carefully the radical candidate would be able to secure some thirty... ...fi- cient, should be, like Simon Giguet, an ordinary barrister in a little country town where barristers are pretty nearly use- less. A word about the... ...candidate is therefore necessary. Colonel Giguet had had, between 1806 and 1813, by his wife who died in 1814, three children, the eldest of whom, Sim... ... he! It takes more nerve than I possess. Who could have told us in 1812 or 1813 that we should come to this? As for me, nothing can surprise me in the... ...e gratitude for a desire in which he sees a reward for his services to the country. We are in his house; he thinks he ought, therefore, to decline tho... ...y a substitute and save their only child from conscription. After that, in 1813, the mother Beauvisage, having become a widow, saved her son once more...

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...Letters of T wo Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- va... ...he file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Letters of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott, the Pennsylvania State Univer- sit... ...the streets, and am deplorably ignorant. I must wait till I am less of the country cousin and have brought my dress and deport- ment into keeping with... ...fully eluding the conscrip- tion, he was forced to send him to the army in 1813, to join the Emperor’s bodyguard. After Leipsic no more was heard of h... ...him at Ber- lin, where the French Minister helped his return to his native country. M. de l’Estorade, the father, who is a small landed proprietor in ... ... l’Estorade. My father-in-law to be has, you see, no castle, only a simple country house, standing beneath one of our hills, at the en- trance of that...