John Gutenberg, First Master Printer : His Acts And Most Remarkable Discourses And His Death
The book John Gutenberg, First Master Printer : His Acts And Most Remarkable Discourses And His Death was written by author Dingelstedt, Franz, Freiherr Von, 1814-1881 Here you can read free online of John Gutenberg, First Master Printer : His Acts And Most Remarkable Discourses And His Death book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is John Gutenberg, First Master Printer : His Acts And Most Remarkable Discourses And His Death a good or bad book?
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" We who have come into the world yohn Gutenberg. 107 four centuries later, and who, accord- ing to a pompous infcription, aere per totam Ruropam collato, which figni- fies, by means of fubfcriptions raifed throughout all Europe, let monu- ments be eredted upon monuments, at Mai'ence, at Strafburg, at Gern- Iheim, at Haarlem, and Heaven knows where elfe, in honour of the art and its inventor, why do we not rather enclofe in the pedeftal of the ftatue a fragment of the parchment bearing the old ...document? And thou, fair Reader, whofe only thought is rapture at the intelled: diffufed throughout the album of Gutenberg, and you, fuccefTors and difciples of the great Mafter, who build palaces for your printing-works, and laftly, you fpedtators who think that 1 0,000 crowns fpent upon a feftival ought not to weigh too heavily in the budget of a town, recoUedt him who was the originator, and is ftill the io8 yohn Gutenberg. hero ; he owed it to the bounty of a generous prince that he received annually twenty bufhels of wheat and two tuns of wine !
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