Pray, don't think I fail to worship sensitiveness-those high, strange emotions, the sense of oneness with all things that live, the vergings of the mind toward the intangible, the light, refreshing sleep of asceticism, subtle expandings of solitude and the mystical launchings,-anything that gives spread of wing rather than amplitude of girth-but I have seen these very pursuits carry one entirely out of rhythm with the world.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
Dangers and hardships there were, and brave followings of the faint will-o'-the-wisp of faith in what lay beyond; but there were no great launchings into space.
"Christopher Columbus, Complete"
Filson Young
If we consider the eBook in its etymological sense, that is to say a book that has been digitized to be distributed as an electronic file, it is now 34 years old and was born with Project Gutenberg in July 1971. This is a much more comforting paternity than the various commercial launchings in proprietary formats that peppered the early 2000s.
"Project Gutenberg (1971-2005)"
Marie Lebert