...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of Th... ...ng Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...gro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that en slave both North and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to h... ...and South. It is hard to have a South ern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself. T... ...The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple a... ...n the map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race ... ...map. Con trast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race before... ... near est the pond, Mr. Gilian Baker’s. When I called to see her in June, 1842, she was gone a hunting in the woods, as was her wont (I am not sure w...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One 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... ...ting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to sig- nify that peculiar musical quality of Poe’s ... ...s unmortified sense of independence.” And this was the tribute paid by the American public to the master who had given to it such tales of conjuring c... ...at this period of my ascension, was beautiful indeed. To the westward, the northward, and the southward, as far as I could see, lay a boundless sheet ... ...he entire Atlantic coasts of France and Spain, with a small portion of the northern part of the continent of Africa. Of individual edifices not a trac... ...a cluster of black specks, which undoubtedly were islands. Far away to the northward I perceived a thin, white, and exceedingly brilliant line, or str... ... at the period when the present paper was written and published (November, 1842). Herein, under pretence of re- lating the fate of a Parisian grisette...

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

... 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... ...The symbolic end of rivalry comes when I am playing the song in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, at the very moment that you are both downloading and list... ...wise they would not work in Lexmark printers. Static Control Components is a North Carolina company that manufactures chips whose main function is to ... ...ouses to make new ones. This point is not confined to music. Earlier I quoted Northrop Frye: “Poetry can only be made out of other poems; novels out of... ...hers and Politi- cians: The Remaking of the Law of Copyright in Britain 1775–1842,” pt. 2, “The Rights of Authors,” Publishing History 25 (1989): 45–7... ...le, Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copy- right Act (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999).... ...le, Literary Copyright Reform in Early Victorian England: The Framing of the 1842 Copyright Act (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 46–48. ...

...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,...

...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...es, and the result is a thor- ough diffusion of the proper feeling. But in America, the coins current being the sole arms of the aristocracy, their di... ...- nies to twirl it by steam. Glare is a leading error in the philosophy of American house- hold decoration—an error easily recognised as deduced from ... ...d de- 39 V olume Five velop my morals:—that is the secret. By and by the “North American Quarterly Humdrum” will make them ashamed of their stupidity... ... of course, with the occa- sion. The author who, after the fashion of “The North Ameri- can Review,” should be upon all occasions merely “quiet,” must... ...led the destinies of American Letters, in conducting the thing called “The North American Review.” The poem just cited is espe- cially beautiful; but ... ...me Five with the two stanzas transposed, in “Graham’s Magazine” for March, 1842, as “To One Departed.” 11. “To F— —s S. O—d,” a portion of the poet’s ...

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............................................................................................................. 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON........................................................................................................................................

...The Varieties of Religious Experience A Study in Human Nature by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PU... ...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... .......................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIEN... ...e his large collection of manuscript material; to Henry W. Rankin, of East Northfield, a friend unseen but proved, to whom I owe precious information;... .... 136 The V arieties of Religious Experience ception, but undoubtedly the northern tone in reli- gion has inclined to the more intimately pessimistic... ...honse Ratisbonne, a free-thinking French Jew, to Catholi- cism, at Rome in 1842. In a letter to a clerical friend, written a few months later, the con... ...lowing stiffly,” he writes, “and we were carrying a press of canvas to get north out of the bad [171] From Thomas C. Upham’s Life and Religious Opinio... ...which he [193] R. Philip: The Life and Times of George Whitefield, London, 1842, p. 366. 312 The V arieties of Religious Experience cannot freely use...

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..................................................................................................................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF ?THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE? ........................................................................................................................................................