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...e 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, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...

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.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...secrated the notion, advanced first by Pierre Manuel to defend his edition of Mirabeau, that the only true heir to an author’s work was the nation as a... ...law’s standard is “substantial similarity,” but not every kind of similarity counts. Minimal or de minimis copying of tiny fragments is ignored. Certa... ...the Court of Appeals ruled that taking even two notes of a musical recording counts as potentially ac- tionable copying. Where recordings are concerne... ...he French tradition. “If the Old Regime first accorded Voltaire, Rousseau, or Mirabeau the possibility of legal status as privileged authors with perpe...

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...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ......................................................... 115 Chapter 2.3.VI. Mirabeau. .................................................................... ............................................... 121 Chapter 2.3.VII. Death of Mirabeau. .................................................................... ...rg German breed, be a Con- stitutional Archbishop? Alone of all men there, Mirabeau may begin to discern clearly whither all this is tending. Patrioti... ...e unfortunately shot,’ reports Bailly, count- ing by units; but Patriotism counts by tens and even by 171 Thomas Carlyle hundreds. Not to be forgotte...

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... Marcas by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rom those lips a voice of thunder must surely proceed; it was a mouth like Mirabeau’s. “I have seen such a grand fellow in the street,” said I to Just... ...he puppet-show hits Punch against the constable in his street theatre, and counts on always getting paid. This man existed only by Marcas, but he had ...

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........................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 3.2.V. Stretching of Formulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ...........................................................

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...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...eper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty thousand’ as the returns shew, do hem us in; Cimmerian Euro... ...n the whole, here too is a swallower of Formulas; of still wider gulp than Mirabeau: this Danton, Mirabeau of the Sansculottes. In the Septem- ber day... ...ed. Strange enough: it is the same tribune raised in mid-air, where a high Mirabeau, a high Barnave and Aristocrat Lameths once thundered: whom gradua... ...nd’s treason, many a man’s treason, if not manifest hereby, is next to it. Mirabeau’s treason: where- fore his Bust in the Hall of the Convention ‘is ...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ich- ever head the crown goes, he is the true, the legitimate sover- eign. Mirabeau had reason to say: “There has been but one mesalliance in my famil... ... who died in this said place, the Duke of Albany, and many others, whether counts, barons, or seigneurs; nearest to the king was the Seigneur de Montm... ...s on this plateau, with a double exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle... ...y primus inter pares (to use the fine expression of a king of Poland), the counts of Champagne, the counts of Blois, those of Anjou, the simple barons... ...eigneur,” said the dramatist, “I must thank you—” “For what?” “Monsieur de Mirabeau has started for Berlin. I don’t know whether we might not both hav...

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...Excerpt: One of the few drawing-rooms where, under the Restoration, the Archbishop of Besancon was sometimes to be seen, was that of the Baronne de Watteville, to whom he was particularly attached on account of her religious sentiments. A...

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...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

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...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania... ...bottom always brings me back to the first hammer stroke delivered by M. de Mirabeau. The one thing needful nowadays is money; that is all that the Rev... ...g may have sur- prised you, but they are serious. The house of d’Esgrignon counts upon you for the proper conduct of investigations from which it must...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ts hinges to admit his cab, he experienced the gratified van- ity to which Mirabeau confessed. “Though my father was a mere druggist at l’Houmeau, I m... ...e Sartine and Lenoir had arrived, pro- vided with a passport, at the Hotel Mirabeau, Rue de la Paix, having come from the Colonies via le Havre, in a ... ...g a round so as not to lose sight of the wretch. Contenson is at the Hotel Mirabeau; but he exchanged so many signs of intelligence with the Englishma... ...eriod. As at Blois you may admire in a single courtyard the chateau of the Counts of Blois, that of Louis XII., that of Francis I., that of Gaston; so... ...y by them. I shall have money enough of yours to prove alibis on the other counts, and when you are back on the hulks—for you are bound to go there—yo...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...f the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., he was clever. The letter was all the more insidious; it was like one of Mirabeau’s letters to Sophie. The style of a true lover is transparent. It ... ...t, being admirably ready to defend either side of any case. And conscience counts for so little, these /bravi/ have so little value for their own word...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... your romance.” “Why not? Men of fifty are not to be despised, if they are counts,” said Ernestine. “Heavens! what has age to do with it?” said Mademo... ...fy you to see his toilet,” whispered Vinet in her ear. “But the king makes counts,” said Madame Marion, who had now joined the group and was surveying... ...adies. “ Ah! madame,” remarked Vinet, “but some young girls pre- fer their counts already made.” “Well, Monsieur Antonin,” said Cecile, laughing at Vi... ...as we used to talk in the olden time of the grand treachery of Monsieur de Mirabeau. I’ll describe that man to you in a single word. Envy. In Monsieur...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... thinking, and general bad behavior will be found in it. A pure atmosphere counts for a good deal in 71 Balzac purity of morals.” The two horsemen, w... ...onstantly changing and costly succession of prime ministers. There comes a Mirabeau or a Danton, a Robespierre or a Napoleon, or proconsuls, or an emp... ...he Bourbons like the low scoundrel he is. France is prostrate, the soldier counts for nothing, they rob him of his due, send him about his busi- ness,...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his father?s room,...

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...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ......................................................... 254 Chapter 2.3.VI. Mirabeau. .................................................................... ............................................... 259 Chapter 2.3.VII. Death of Mirabeau. .................................................................... ...ty; they have sinews and indignation. Do but look what holiday old Marquis Mirabeau, the crabbed old friend of Men, looked on, in these same years, fr... ...ot,’ reports Bailly, counting 293 Thomas Carlyle by units; but Patriotism counts by tens and even by hundreds. Not to be forgotten, nor forgiven! Pat... ...eper in, over the Northern marches: ‘a hundred and fifty thousand’ as fear counts, ‘eighty thousand’ as the returns shew, do hem us in; Cimmerian Euro... ...surrectionary Commune passing into an Elected legal one; getting their ac- counts settled,—not without irritancy! Petion has declined: nevertheless ma...

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...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nvenience, W alden 96 as they have learned to cipher in order to keep ac counts and not be cheated in trade; but of reading as a noble intellectual ... ... night, sun down, moon down, and at last earth down too. It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery “to ascertain what degree of resolution wa...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

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Excerpt: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.

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...Contents INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DIS...

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...AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS by Adam Smith A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ...CTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the same reason, I believe, in all other modern nations of Europe, all ac- counts are kept, and the value of all goods and of all estates is generally... ...ne bush- els of the best wheat, at Windsor market, it appears from the ac- counts of Eton college, was only £ 1:13:9 4/5, which is nearly 6s.3d. below... ...000 sterling. Several other very well authenticated, though manuscript ac- counts, I have been assured, agree in making this whole annual importation ... ...orld be- gan,’ says a very diligent and respectable author, the Marquis de Mirabeau, ‘three great inventions which have principally given sta- bility ...