Gutenberg Sentence Examples

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  • Gutenberg and Shakespeare were among the patrons of the thirteen months in this calendar.

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  • Long ago, before Gutenberg, if you wanted to know something, you had to memorize it.

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  • They're copyright-free, so they can be freely distributed, and Project Gutenberg has compiled them in one extensive catalog.

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  • Project Gutenberg was one of the first online organizations to offer scanned copies of public domain books.

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  • One of the two volumes of the Gutenberg Bible, for example, sold at a 1987 Christie's auction for more than $5 million.

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  • Although there are many websites that let you read free books online, Project Gutenberg, Classic Bookshelf, and the International Children's Digital Library are the most popular.

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  • Project Gutenberg offers over 20,000 free books for you to enjoy, produced through the work of several thousand volunteers.

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  • Unlike other popular websites offering free book collections, Project Gutenberg also has foreign language titles and free audio books.

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  • The site can be somewhat hard to navigate, but the variety of resources offered makes Project Gutenberg well worth the effort.

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  • Project Gutenberg offers a number of free ebooks and free audio books for avid readers.

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  • The old electoral palace (1627-1678), a large building of red sandstone, now contains a valuable collection of Roman and Germanic antiquities, a picture gallery, a natural history museum, the Gutenberg Museum, and a library of 220,000 volumes.

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  • A handsome statue of Gutenberg, by Thorwaldsen, was erected at Mainz in 1837.

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  • The citizens espoused the cause of Diether, but their city was captured by Adolph; it was then deprived of its privileges and was made subject to the archbishop. Many of the inhabitants were driven into exile, and these carried into other lands a knowledge of the art of printing, which had been invented at Mainz by Johann Gutenberg in 1450.

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  • The municipal library, with 300,000 volumes, boasts among its rarer treasures a Gutenberg Bible printed at Mainz between 1450 and 1455, another on parchment dated 1462, the Institutiones Justiniani (Mainz, 1468), the Theuerdank, with woodcuts by Hans Schaufelein, and numerous valuable autographs.

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  • The statues of Gutenberg, Fust and Schoffer form a group on the top; an ornamented frieze presents medallions of a number of famous printers; below these are figures representing the towns of Mainz, Strassburg, Venice and Frankfort; and on the corners of the pedestal are allegorical statues of theology, poetry, science and industry.

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  • It is not clear how the first printers struck off their copies, but without doubt Gutenberg did use at an early period in his career a mechanical press of some kind, which was constructed of wood.

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  • The town has new law courts, a Roman Catholic garrison church, an iron bridge across the Rhine to Kehl and statues of General Kleber and of the printer Gutenberg.

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  • Project Gutenberg offers a few classic children's books.

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  • One of the biggest sources for online books is Project Gutenberg.

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  • This is because Gutenberg's printing press began making books more readily available to the public.

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