Risen by Perseverance: Or, Lives of Self-made MenWilliam P. Nimmo and Company, 1879 - 223 pages |
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... father , who had emigrated from England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap - boiler and tallow- chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been ...
... father , who had emigrated from England about twenty - four years before , followed the occupation of a soap - boiler and tallow- chandler , a business to which he had not been bred , and by which he seems with difficulty to have been ...
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... father began to reflect that the expense of a college education for him was what he could not very well afford ; and that , besides , the church in America was a poor profession after all . He was accordingly removed , and placed for ...
... father began to reflect that the expense of a college education for him was what he could not very well afford ; and that , besides , the church in America was a poor profession after all . He was accordingly removed , and placed for ...
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... father to determine upon this profession for him was the fondness he had from his infancy shown for reading . All the money he could get hold of used to be eagerly laid out in the purchase of books . His father's small collection ...
... father to determine upon this profession for him was the fondness he had from his infancy shown for reading . All the money he could get hold of used to be eagerly laid out in the purchase of books . His father's small collection ...
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... father , who , without much literary knowledge , was a man of a remarkably sound and vigorous understanding , soon brought down the rising vanity of the young poet , by pointing out to him the many faults of his performances , and ...
... father , who , without much literary knowledge , was a man of a remarkably sound and vigorous understanding , soon brought down the rising vanity of the young poet , by pointing out to him the many faults of his performances , and ...
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... father . His natural acuteness and good sense enabled him here again to render an essential service to his son , by pointing out to him how far he fell short of his antagonist in elegance of expression , in method , and in perspicuity ...
... father . His natural acuteness and good sense enabled him here again to render an essential service to his son , by pointing out to him how far he fell short of his antagonist in elegance of expression , in method , and in perspicuity ...
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Page 183 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 16 - Then I turned and went down Chestnut Street and part of Walnut Street, eating my roll all the way, and, coming round, found myself again at Market Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water ; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 15 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 13 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character * among us for learning and ingenuity.
Page 178 - Returning home from exciting political meetings in the country to the waiting press in London, I do verily believe I have been upset in almost every description of vehicle known in this country. I have been, in my time, belated on miry by-roads, towards the small hours, forty or fifty miles from London, in a wheelless carriage, with exhausted horses and drunken post-boys, and have got back in time for publication, to be received with neverforgotten compliments by the late Mr. Black, coming in the...
Page 11 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 11 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.
Page 176 - The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies...
Page 17 - Thus refreshed, I walked again up the street, which by this time had many clean-dressed people in it, who were all walking the same way. I joined them, and thereby was led into the great meeting-house of the Quakers near the market. I sat down among them, and after looking round...
Page 176 - I have ever known ; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it ; then, beginning again, I forgot them ; while I was picking them up, I dropped the...