Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . enius, who was afterward to hold converse with all times and all places. Thisshelter afforded to Gutenberg sheds everlasting lustre on Nassau and its meet in history with instances where a generous hospitality has given happi-ness and immortal fame to the most insignificant potentates and to the smallestof states. Gutenberg continued printing with his own hands, at Nassau, under the eyesof his Maecenas, the elector, during several years
Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 5 . enius, who was afterward to hold converse with all times and all places. Thisshelter afforded to Gutenberg sheds everlasting lustre on Nassau and its meet in history with instances where a generous hospitality has given happi-ness and immortal fame to the most insignificant potentates and to the smallestof states. Gutenberg continued printing with his own hands, at Nassau, under the eyesof his Maecenas, the elector, during several years of peace and quiet. He diedat the age of , leaving his sister no inheritance, but bequeathing to theworld the empire of the human mind, discovered and achieved by a workman. I bequeath, he says in his will, to my sister all the books which I printedat the monastery of St. Arbogast. The poor inventors only legacy to his sur-viving relative was the common property of almost all inventors like himself—wasted youth, a persecuted life, a name aspersed, toil, watchings, and the oblivionof his contemporaries. WILLIAM CAXTON (1412-1491). W iLLiAM Caxton, to whom England owesthe introduction of printing, was born,according to his own statement, in the Wealdof Kent. Of the date of his birth nothing isknown with certainty, though Oldys places itin 1412. Lewis and Oldys suppose that be-tween his fifteenth and eighteenth years he wasput apprentice to one Robert Large, a merceror merchant of considerable eminence, whowas afterward, successively, sheriff and lordmayor of London, and who upon his death, in1441, remembered Caxton in his will by a leg-acy of 20 marks. Caxton at this time had be-come a freeman, of the Company of knowledge of business, however, induced V^W^ ^^ him, either upon his own account or as agent JwT ^ / of some merchant, to travel to the Low Coun- ^fV . ^J tries for a short time. In 1464 we find him jomed in a commission with one Robert Whitehil
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