Category: Biographies
A wedding! how much joy is contained in that word! but even more in the thing itself! You, however, who live in these days, can hardly form an idea of what a wedding was in the good old times, for you possess only the shadow, and even that is of the palest hue. Guests, among w...
History, in transmitting to us the decree of Adolfe of Nassau, has provided us with a proof of the liberality of this Prince of the Church, but she remains silent when we inquir...
7. CHAPTER I.A wedding! how much joy is contained in that word! but even more in the thing itself! You, however, who live in these days, can hardly form an idea of what a wedding was in the...
8. CHAPTER II.If you have not been spoiled, reader, by the sight of the fine rooms of Messrs. Brockhaus and Hadnel, those _coryphées_ of the present day of the art of typography, who draw off...
9. CHAPTER III.When John Gutenberg returned he found in his humble room, besides his faithful Beildech, a young stranger awaiting him, who hastened, when the old man entered, to rise and salut...
11. CHAPTER V._The Lord Archbishop Adolfe of Nassau having bethought him of John Gutenberg, the printer, causes a search to be made for him by one of his horsemen, who finds him in a fisherma...
10. CHAPTER IV.Perhaps, Reader, you may have happened to witness a threatening storm enclosing the hills around with its gloomy wings, while the valley below sleeps carelessly in the last rays...
5. CHAPTER V. The Lord Archbishop Adolfe of Nassau having2. CHAPTER II. What John Gutenberg, master printer, said, and1. CHAPTER I. As how John Fust, master printer in the city of3. CHAPTER III. Who John Gutenberg found in his dwelling when he6. CHAPTER VI. Death of John Gutenberg. Reader, pray for the4. CHAPTER IV. How two Crosiers being engaged in a quarrel, the