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scishop writes "Mazarin is an open-source interface to Project Gutenberg's library. Mazarin increases the accessibility of Gutenberg's 10,000+ books as it formats the books for HTML display -- providing paginations in addition to generating table of contents and other advanced markup features -- along with enabling users to carry out full-text searches on the entire library."
Most of PG's more well-knownalready are formatted into HTML.
I would say not, it was needed, Luther saw the abuses of the Church in Rome, and tried to correct them, he never wanted to break from the church, and infact the break officialy did not happen till 200 years after Luther died, when Rome said there are 2 churches "them and us"
since some seem to have trouble on the index page... here it is:
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The key link is search page.
Do you need a website upgrade?
Judging by the snippet of Perl at the bottom of the error message I'd say it's part of the Mason CMS.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
WTF is with people who say that "haha - the website is slashdotted, here is the error message". WE WILL FIGURE IT OUT OURSELVES OR READ THE OTHER TEN MESSAGES THAT SAY THAT. Thanks for your consideration.
If you have a palm pilot, i can recommend Weasel Reader.
I've been using it for a couple of years on my Palm V, and despite its small screen size it works perfectly for reading ebooks.
Torrents, ISOs and what have you are linked through the PG site. You can also order a gratis copy of CD or DVD if you like (please consider making a donation in that case).
There used to be a special library archive format (Green thingy something), but I don't see it on the site anymore?
When the printing press was invented, this diluted that monopoly, since then the ordinary people could afford their own copies of the Bible and became independent from the Church for information.
Not only that, but Luther translated the Bible into the common tongue. He used to hang out in pubs and the market and make notes of how people really spoke so that his translation would reflect day-to-day usage. The result - which is solidly argued in The Sovereign Individual and elsewhere - is that the common man realised once he read the Bible for himself that he didn't have to prop up the corrupt and extravagant monstrosity that was Rome then - economically or otherwise.
Catholic Church --> RIAA
The modern nation state is not a bad analogy either - extortion of taxes by force and the threat of jail, mean grasping and extravagant - and totally unnecessary for true free enterprise. But that's a whole other discussion...
--- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
It is however a great way to research the classics for info and reports.
That's quite a failure on some levels, if that's all we're doing. One of my personal favorite authors in PG, J. S. Fletcher, is never going to be considered part of the "classics". But he's a nice read for mystery lovers who like Victorian London.
I still like to hunt around old bookshops, and often I can find those works for a buck or two.
Which books? Some of our books can not be found that cheap and many of the ones which can, might take a lot of searching. We're not just the big name classics; we handle a lot of non-fiction and obscure fiction, too.
Quite to the contrary, these books were added by Rome at Trento. Until them they were usually copied along the Bible without being considered part of the Canon, just like the Shepherd of Hemas before the Montanist heresy.
It was only when Luther decided to have them printed apart from the Bible that Rome decided to try to accuse him of tooking them out of where they never belonged...
You misquote, actually "you art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church", Mt XVI:18 RSV, and the unanimous consent of the Fathers of the primitive churches is that the rock wasn't Peter, but his confession.
Again you misquote: "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven", Mt XVI:19 RSV. This is spoken of the church which started with Peter and the Apostles, and it goes without saying that an institution having for its head a man instead of Christ ceases to be a legitimate church.
n fact, the analogy of the keys relates to the custom of giving the keys of a city to the person appointed by the king to have authority there. The authority is taken by the king if it is not duly used.
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