...arge 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 Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , ... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...ere may be little solidity in an ancient idea that congregations of men into cities and nations are the most pleasing objects in the sight of superior... ...ting. To put our extensive coast in such a state of defense as to secure our cities and interior from invasion will be attended with expense, but the ... ...rtifications are judiciously placed on our great inlets, as distant from our cities as circumstances will permit, they will form the only points of at... ...naugurated as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret route to avoid...

...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of other days, the mother of us all, love, pulsing in ... ..., storm, heat, cold, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We nev... ...rossing the Lop Desert on camelback; I imagined visiting the Khan’s great cities; I dreamed of sketching palaces, temples, courtiers. I wanted to cl... ...a.m. To commence my diary I will use lines I wrote a few years ago for an Illinois newspaper. May 20, 1863 I am six feet four inches tall and we... ...e 20, 1863 Some of my happy days were passed in East Salem, when I was an Illinois postmaster. Since the mail arrived only twice a week, I could per... ...118 years she would be free. Patience? Slavery was an old institution in Illinois, winked at in the 30’s and 40’s. The first governor of the state ...

...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 pri...

... 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... ...y men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. Who were these sheep? Bizarre Dolly-like clones? Transgenic kille... ...ith Related Documents 1783–1854, ed. Donald Jack- son (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962), 586). It is easy, in fact, reading this prodigious... ...p Deffaa, Blue Rhythms: Six Lives in Rhythm and Blues (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 161. 13. Columbia Catalog Number CO45097, availabl...

...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,...

...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. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ng to West Point would give me the opportu- nity of visiting the two great cities of the continent, Phila- delphia and New York. This was enough. When... ...ve. The soldiers were principally foreigners who had enlisted in our large cities, and, with the exception of a chance drayman among them, it is not p... ... plain, reached after passing the mountains east of Perote, extends to the cities of Puebla and Mexico. The route travelled by the army before reachin... ... from the co-partnership with Boggs, and, in May, 1860, removed to Galena, Illinois, and took a clerkship in my father’s store. While a citizen of Mis... ...en the election took place in November, 1860, I had not been a resident of Illinois long enough to gain citizenship and could not, therefore, vote. I ... ...eaking was over volunteers were called for to form a company. The quota of Illinois had been fixed at six regiments; and it was supposed that one comp...

...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. Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Clarence Darrow, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... perish from the earth. Through this instinct, man builds his villages and cities and organizes his states and nations. With the gregarious instinct a... ...e from those who have been reared in the poor and con- gested districts of cities and large villages. The robbers, bur- glars, pickpockets and thieves... ...rs were never huddled together in great multitudes, as are the dwellers in cities today. T o a degree almost all animals are 48 gregarious, but the u... ...fessional criminals are against the parole board. Speaking of the State of Illinois, I am sure that the parole law, instead of shortening the time of ...

...Preface: This book comes from the reflections and experience of more than forty years spent in court. Aside from the practice of my profession, the topics I have treated are such as have always held my interest and inspired a taste for books that discuss the human machine with its manifestations and the causes of it...