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Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks. It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The ...
The dog that guarded the Seven Sleepers, and that stood by them all through their long sleep.
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The Duchess of Angoulême, daughter of Louis XV. See the parting scene in Carlyle's "French Revolution."
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The Duchess of Weimar, the mother of the grand-duke; collected about her court the most illustrious literary men of the time, headed by Goethe, who was much attached to her (1739-1807).
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The early analysis of substances which has in modern times developed into chemistry, and which aimed chiefly at the discovery of the philosopher's stone, of a universal solvent, and of the elixir of life; it has been defined to be "an art without art, which has its beginning in falsehood, its middle in toil, and its end in poverty."
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The elder brother of Moses, and the first high-priest of the Jews, an office he held for forty years.
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The eldest son of Charles X., after the Revolution of 1830 gave up his rights to the throne and retired to Goritz (1778-1844).
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The family name of Correggio; the name of an Italian composer, born at Rome, the author of a still celebrated Miserere (1580-1652).
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The father of Aeneas, whom his son bore out of the flames of Troy on his shoulders to the ships; was buried in Sicily.
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