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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...samvak.tripod.com/ ISBN: 9989-929-40-8 Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ...XI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of Edward, Prince of Wales (Edward VIII) and Wallis Simpson in 1... ...38 rebellion, further drained the country's dilapidated resources. By 1849, many Canadians were clamoring to join the United states. An Annexatio... ...st among crimes by the same offender. This system was developed by the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the early 1990s. UTAP, stands for... ... mathematicians dedicated to studying the Fibonacci numbers (permutations of phi). Artists like Goethe, Cezanne, Bartok studied it obsessively. ... ...s and studies for Leonardo's works of art and engineering are found on his shopping lists, personal notes, and personal expenditure ledgers. No ... ... allowed to enter Leonardo's den, where he kept, as Giorgio Vasari in "Lives of the Artists", describes: "a number of green and other kinds of lizar... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

Anthology of fascinating historical and scientific facts and links to relevant Web sources.

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ... the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Indepe... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab... ...sers, and issue approvals. 285 Some of these expressed approval for the Canadian orphan works system, under which the Canadian Copyright Board rev... ...se. 286 Several other commenters, however, expressed disapproval of the Canadian system: these commenters often pointed to the fact that the Cana... ...5 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administrative burden o... ...d publish such filings? For instance, would the Copyright Office publish lists of these notices on a regular basis, similar to the lists of notice...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyrig...

...Many commenters were in favor of determining whether a search was reasonable on an “ad hoc” or case-by-case basis, whereby each search is evaluated according to its circumstances. This approach was offered as having the advantage of flexibility to cover t...

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Report on Orphaned Works

By: Marybeth Peters

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ... the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Indepe... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab... ...sers, and issue approvals. 285 Some of these expressed approval for the Canadian orphan works system, under which the Canadian Copyright Board rev... ...se. 286 Several other commenters, however, expressed disapproval of the Canadian system: these commenters often pointed to the fact that the Cana... ...5 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administrative burden o... ...d publish such filings? For instance, would the Copyright Office publish lists of these notices on a regular basis, similar to the lists of notice...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copyrig...

...We also recommend one other threshold requirement for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under the circumstances. The idea is that the user, in the course o...

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The Silver Lining: Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema

By: Sam Vaknin, Ph. D.

...d http://www.narcissistic-abuse.com Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley I... ...x IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of Robotics ... ...Fourth Law of Robotics IX. Surrogates: The Interrupted Self X. Avatar: The Ecology of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth ... ...iticians, mad scientists, megalomaniac media barons, gung-ho generals and demented artists. This world is not of our making and our ability to shap... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ... ...litics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). Owner of the Narcissistic Abuse Study Lists and the Abusive Relationships Newsletter (more than 6,000 ...

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Report on Orphan Works

By: Library of Congress

...he Register of Copyrights · January 2006 Report on Orphan Works w Library of Congress U. S. Copyright Office 101 Independence Avenue SE Washington,... ...ce Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyright... ... the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Indepe... ...ated by the Copyright Office: for example, they advocated publication of lists of all works as they were about to fall into the public domain; 210 ... ...ices” for searches in particular industries. 263 These would consist of lists of resources that should be searched in order to conduct a “reasonab... ...sers, and issue approvals. 285 Some of these expressed approval for the Canadian orphan works system, under which the Canadian Copyright Board rev... ...se. 286 Several other commenters, however, expressed disapproval of the Canadian system: these commenters often pointed to the fact that the Cana... ...5 licenses between 1990 and January 2005). Generally, the critics of the Canadian system felt that it would impose an undue administrative burden o... ...d publish such filings? For instance, would the Copyright Office publish lists of these notices on a regular basis, similar to the lists of notice...

...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of the copy...

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Trendsiters Digital Content and Web Technologies

By: Sam Vaknin

... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ... Earlier this year, Microsoft has shut down ListBot (a host of discussion lists). Suite101 has stopped paying its editors (content authors) effectiv... ...of industry standards, readers and audiences. Both the supply side (title lists) and the demand side (readership) have increased. Giants like Microso... ...s of the earth will be able to select from publishing backlists and front lists comprising millions of titles. Millions of authors are now able to r... ... debating the issue. So do Luxemburg and Norway. According to Wired, the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry trade group, has p... ...s and MP3 players." Precedent is hardly encouraging. The aforementioned Canadian Collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax doll... ...President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager o...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...drek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presen... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...ct art on a practical basis for hundreds of years. It is one reason why many artists were ahead of their time. Because when they used the concept ... ...that whatever is glorified: is a complete reversal of the actual truth. The Canadian Anthem glorifies Canadians as standing on guard. Guarding the... ... to be ‘strong and free’. That is a complete reversal of the actual truth. Canadians are not free. They are weakest of slaves to the American ca... ...nt from Santa. The song still sings of that time when rich people had secret lists… which people were favored and which were not. The evil of thi... ... beings: by creating a myth based upon secrecy, stealth, and greed, and secret lists of who has been naughty and nice. It worked. The starving po...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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Capitalistic Musings

By: Sam Vaknin

... write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...et http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neg... ...O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – On Volatility IV.... ... was introduced illegally where manufacturers insisted on rigid, rich-world, price lists. Piracy of intellectual property, for instance, is a form... ...l Jackson, Schwarzenegger and Grisham are businessmen at least as much as they are artists. Intellectual property is a relatively new notion. In t... ...e revered. But they were rarely financially rewarded. Well into the 19th century, artists and innovators were commissioned - and salaried - to pro... ... Irian, 2001 Heyne, Paul and Palmer, John P. - The Economic Way of Thinking - 1st Canadian edition - Scarborough, Ontario, Prentice-Hall Canada, 1... ...ng to the Ernst & Young 2002 Alberta Technology Report released in March 2003, the Canadian hi-tech sector is languishing with less than $3 billion... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...k may not be resold or uploaded for distribution to others. This is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people and horses... ...d fictitiously. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, loca... ...safe—no holes, no ruts, no reason for a horse to break a leg—but Kurt’s sense of foreboding grew. He yanked up the collar of his oilskin, hoping the ... ...b, the lies, the deception, he’d handed Archer his resignation from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Archer had convinced Kurt to accept a leave i... ...b, Height 1.8 meters/5 ft 11 in. Occupations: trucker, metalworker. Dual U.S./Canadian citizenship. Distinguishing Features: scar on right shoulder. ... ...olded on a chair and littered with pocket castoffs: a mixture of American and Canadian coins, a clump of wrinkled betting tickets and an empty tin o... ...de two good races. And after consultation with the owner.” “The Racing Form lists you as the owner,” Sandra said. Kurt’s mouth twitched. “The Form... ...Well, kind of slow.” His smile faded. “But Mr. Friedman says it takes time for artists to build a customer base. Anyway, the shipments to Antwerp are...

...ird-string Thoroughbreds to the backwater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspecting she’s a person of interest—and not because of her riding skills.Kurt didn’t expect his contrary colt to flourish under Julie’s feminine touch nor for his own rust...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ...wn) and a more universal one was relegated to a group of special individuals called artists. Theirs is the job to experience (mostly emotions), to ... .... They could be alive or dead (for instance, he could measure himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art... ...ocracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddit... ...ols ("Hilton"). These meta-tags (arranged in semantic and relational "ontologies" - lists of metatags, their meanings and how they relate to each ot... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...s a serious study of the Jews and their role in history, past and present. Endless lists of prominent people of Jewish descent are produced in supp... ...wn) and a more universal one was relegated to a group of special individuals called artists. Theirs is the job to experience (mostly emotions), to ... .... They could be alive or dead (for instance, he could measure himself against past artists). They could be few or many, but they must exist for art... ...ocracy" is an empty word. Granted, the hallmarks of democracy are there: candidate lists, parties, election propaganda, and voting. But its quiddit... ...ols ("Hilton"). These meta-tags (arranged in semantic and relational "ontologies" - lists of metatags, their meanings and how they relate to each ot... ...s – Vice President in charge of Sovereign Debt Financing 1985 to 1986 Represented Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General ...

...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....

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The Art of Writing

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stev... ... The Art of Writing by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free ... ...e Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmissio... ...have been conceived from within outwards, and generously nourished from the author’s mind, the moment in which he begins to execute is one of extreme ... ... published in the Idler, August 1894. **Ne Pas Confondre. Not the slim green pamphlet with the im- print of Andrew Elliot, for which (as I see with a... ...s with much vivacity; and the next moment I had seen the circumstance trans- planted from India and the tropics to the Adirondack wil- derness and the...

...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coars...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve 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... .... See the Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 410. The selectmen draw up the lists of electors for the election of the Governor, and transmit the result... ... be limited to a nar- row sphere; but when the chief magistrate enters the lists, he borrows the strength of the government for his own pur- poses. In... ...s of at- taining to it. The wealthy members of the community aban- don the lists, through unwillingness to contend, and fre- quently to contend in vai... ...ing seems to be more prejudicial to society than these virtues. The French Canadians, who have faithfully preserved the traditions of their pristine m... ...chased an extensive estate with the earnings of a short term of labor, the Canadian paid as much for land as he would have done in France. Nature offe... ...iking, that the English are the masters of commerce and manufacture in the Canadian 383 Tocqueville country, that they spread on all sides, and confi...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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The Light That Failed

By: Rudyard Kipling

...IES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...t anything you do,’ he answered. ‘I’ll be an artist, and I’ll do things.’ ‘Artists always want money, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty poun... ... wish I had; but I forgathered with some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of them could draw,—but they wouldn’t draw. They g... ...at they call an artist by profes- 117 Rudyard Kipling sion. You know what artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop lab... ...y.’ A roar of laughter interrupted him. ‘Sit down,’ said the Nilghai. ‘The lists aren’t even made out in the War Office.’ ‘Will there be any force at ... ...duty as a fives-court.—We shall have the Suakin-Berber line built at last.—Canadian voyageurs are too careful. Give me a half-drunk Krooman in a whale...

...nswered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fi...

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The History Of

By: H. G. Wells

... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Mr. Polly by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...hy and history, as the repeating of names that were hard to pronounce, and lists of products and populations and heights and lengths, and as lists and... ...rt and respect (I suppose) a perfect horde of pro- fessors and writers and artists and ill-groomed difficult people, instead of using our brains in a ... ...ing, land- ing and time-keeping for the hirers of two rowing boats and one Canadian canoe, baling out the said vessels and conceal- ing their leaks an...

...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...ic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 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... ...inter or writer. “Why say, the letters that boy sent me on his trip to the Canadian Rockies, they just absolutely make you see the place as if you wer... ...to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came to town, gave them cigars, addressed them by their f... ...ere d’ you think you’d be if it wasn’t for our capital behind you, and our lists of properties, and all the prospects we find for you? All you got to ... ...ift-books”—large, expensive editions of fairy-tales illustrated by English artists and as yet un- read by any Babbitt save Tinka. In a corner by the f... ...es, gosh, we got to have some boob for au- dience, when a bunch of hot-air artists like Frink and Littlefield get going.” “Well, dear—I meant to speak... ...- ments was the dun background of office-routine: leases, sales-contracts, lists of properties to rent. The evenings of oratory and committees and lod...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings....

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith 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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ... we do not dread Competitors; we rather give them hail And greeting in the lists where we may fail: Must, if we bear an aim beyond the head! My better... ...is fate; and she who urged the start Abides the race. III For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swif... ... that mask They wear for your cool mind historically, And blaze like black lists of a present plague? But in that light behold them we. XXIII —Your sp... ... struck on sight, when quick with dews, Like music of the very Muse. Great artists pass our single sense; We hear in seeing, strung to tense; Then hap... ...ruth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust be on the bes...

Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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 document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... .... Odd, to read his name and Mrs. Burman Radnor’s at separate places in the lists! Well, we’ll hope. It’s a case for a compromise of sentiments and cla... ...e a reluctant appeal to figures, and it hung upon the bolder exhibition of lists and tables as to whether he was beaten; and if beaten, he was mor- al... ... to female char- acter. That likewise may be the hypocrite’s mask. Popular artists, intent to gratify the national taste for ef- fects called realisti... ...n, and Mr. Pempton took their usual places. There was no fluting. A famous Canadian lady was the principal singer. A Galician 340 One of Our Conquero...

Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ...e- landic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of un- couth names. But ... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might... ...ast they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunt- ers and trappers of the West, when the far west (...

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ...Icelandic, Dutch, and old English authorities, there might be quoted other lists of uncertain whales, blessed with all manner of uncouth names. But I ... ...t ignorance of those times, when the true form of the whale was unknown to artists; and considering that as in Perseus’ case, St. George’s whale might... ...last they carry home the oil of forty fish. Whereas, in the days of the old Canadian and Indian hunters and trappers of the West, when the far west (in...

... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ...lication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells 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... ...sthetic degradation of the Victorian period? Will a great constellation of artists redeem the ambitious sentimentalities and genteel skilfulness that ... ...hem that the whole next 34 An Englishman Looks at the World generation of Canadians has drawn its ideas mainly from American publications, that India... ... ever ventured to think they would. Nor will the state control writers and artists, for example, nor the stage—though it may build and own theatres—th... ...copyright; and then—with perhaps a secretary or so—he would revise all his lists and 127 H. G . Wells mark against every book whether he would have t... ... the heroes of temporary sensations may run a considerable chance upon the lists. My own estimate of the popular wisdom is against the idea that any v... ...e French Catholic population of Louisiana, the Irish Catholics, the French-Canadians who are now ousting the sterile New Englander from New England, t...

...Contents THE COMING OF BLRIOT ......................................................................................................... 5 MY FIRST FLIGHT..............................................................................................

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Familiar Studies of Men and Books

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...but we shall have the justice also to recognise in him one of the greatest artists of our generation, and, in many ways, one of the greatest art- ists... ...nd further from writing the Address to a Louse. Yet Burns, like most great artists, proceeded from a school and contin- ued a tradition; only the scho... ...e extent the moral of his own career. He was among the least impersonal of artists. Except in the Jolly Beggars, he shows no gleam of dramatic instinc... ... man for any genuine quali- ties, as we see by his admirable sketch of the Canadian wood- cutter in Walden; but he would not consent, in his own words... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...fi- cations of advancing years and altered circumstances. Turner and other artists have been known literally to see colours in absolutely different hu... ...her neck; but it was worse when they fell in with a party of very Bohemian artists, whom Mr. Grinstead knew just well enough not to be able to shake t... ...e of slumming with Emilia, a little of society impartially with swells and artists, and a good deal of amiable lounging and of modern reading of all k... ...bolic. History was delightful to me for the search for true knights. I had lists of them, drawings if possible, but I never 91 Yo n g e could indoctr... ...is house, where his wife was equally kind. He fetched the priest, a French Canadian, and the doctor, and Lida has been watching over her most tenderly...

...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, who were kind enough to be interested in the domestic politics of the Mohuns ...

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. 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... ...ike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nicholas Poussin, and Canova, who was in town... ...ry moment ringing more clearly, until a knight in pink armor rode into the lists with his visor down, and riding a tremendous dun charger, which he ma... ...ids me to speak, by a Sioux’s council-fire and I can patter 71 Burlesques Canadian French with the hunters who come for peltries to Nachitoches or Th... ...ht, as the locks of the Jew- ish maiden whom the knight had rescued in the lists of 282 Thackeray Templestowe. A bit of Rowena’s hair was in Sir Wilf... ... the chief phy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief everything, under the Moorish kings. Thus ... ...mingled with the mane of his charger, which backed to the other end of the lists; then galloping back to the place where Jemimarann was seated, he beg...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ... 90 The God of His Fathers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 The League of the Old Men . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Bˆ atard . . . . .... ...r and across the portage.” “But the squaw?” asked Louis Savoy, the tall French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when... ...w that in that direction the Arctic Cir cle cut its forbidding way across the Canadian Barrens. This stream in which he stood was a feeder to the Cop... ... of Klakee Nah, a chief, and she lived in the Holy Cross Mission where were no artists, but only pure souled Sisters who were interested in cleanlines... ...from Lake The Wit of Porportuk 215 Le Barge, and, beyond, a half dozen French Canadian voyageurs, grouped by themselves. From afar came the faint cri... ...ough! To sleep in the rooms of the Junta meant access to their secrets, to the lists of names, to the addresses of comrades down on Mexican 400 JACK ...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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