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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 ...
A Platonist, born at Grantham, a Fellow of Christ College, Cambridge, and author of a poem "Song of the Soul"; he was a mystic who exercised a great influence among the young men of Cambridge (1614-1687).
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A poet, born in Carmarthen, Wales; the author of "Songs of Two Worlds," "The Epic of Hades," "A Vision of Saints," etc.; often confounded with the succeeding, with whom he has next to nothing in common; born 1833.
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A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the leaves of the tobacco plant, is a colorless, oily liquid, readily soluble in water, and has a pungent odour.
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A Portuguese poet; wrote sonnets and epistles in verse; was predecessor of Camoens (1495-1558).
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A priest of the Church in Rome, a convert from paganism, who in the third century took a severe view of the conduct of those who had lapsed under persecution, particularly the Decian, and insisted that the Church, having no power to absolve them, could not, even on penitence, readmit them, in which protest he was joined by a considerable party named after him Novatians, and who continued to trouble the Church for centuries after his death, assuming the name of Cathari or purists.
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A primitive people of Italy occupying Campania; were subjugated in the 5th century B.C. by the Samnites, who amalgamated with them and were subsequently incorporated with the Romans; the Oscan tongue, a cruder form of Latin, may have had its own literature, and is still extant on coins and in inscriptions.
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A printing establishment in Leadenhall Street, London, which about a century ago issued a set of trashy, extremely sentimental novels with complicated plots, in which hero and heroine were involved before they could get married.
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A prison so arranged that the warder can see every prisoner in charge without being seen by them.
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A professional person appointed to certify to a formality required by law as observed in his presence.
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A Prosperous manufacturing borough of Lancashire, 3½ m. NE. of Burnley. 2, Capital of a district in the N. end of South Island, New Zealand; has a busy harbour in Blind Bay, and manufactures cloth, leather, soap, etc.
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