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CHARLES KNIGHT, PALL MALL EAST;
LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, & GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW; OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; ROBERTSON & ATKINSON, GLASGOW ; WAKEMAN, DUBLIN; WILLMER, LIVERPOOL; AND BAINES & CO., LEEDS.
MDCCCXXX.
LONDON:
Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES,
Stamford Street.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION. Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pascal;
Prince Rupert; Montgolfier. Self-education
CHAPTER II.
Strength of the Passion for Knowledge. Pythagoras; Archi-
medes; Leibnitz; Galileo; Heyne
CHAPTER III.
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1
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Humble Station no Obstacle. Epictetus; Protagoras; Cle-
anthes; Haüy; Winckelman; Arnigio; Duval.-Affec-
tation of high birth. Bandinelli; Scaliger.-Men proud
of their low Origin. Protogones; Baudouin; Gelli.—
Obscure origin. Metastasio; Haydn; Opie; Parini;
Prideaux ; Saunders; Linnæus; Lomonosoff; B. Jonson;
the Milners; John Hunter.-Application of Examples. 31
CHAPTER IV.
Artists rising from the lower to the higher branches. B. Cel-
lini; Q. Matsys; Ibbetson; Kent; Towne; Kirby ;
Schiavoni; Hogarth; Sharp; Thew; Caslon.-Late
learners. Cromwell; Sir W. Jones; Cato Censor;
Alfred; Moliere; Valerianus; Vondel; Pitot; Paucton;
Ogilby
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CHAPTER V.
Early Age of Great Men. Short Term of their Lives. New-
ton, Gregory; Torricelli; Pascal; Cowper; Burns;
Byron; Sydney; Otway; Collins; Mozart; Raphael
Correggio; Politian; Mirandola
71
CHAPTER VI.
Self-educated Men. T. Simpson
87
CHAPTER VII.
Self-educated Men continued. E. Stone; J. Stone.-Pursuit
of Knowledge and Business united. Cicero; Jones;
Cæsar; Scipio; Polybius; Frederick II.; Sully; De
Thou; More; Selden; Hale; Grotius
99
CHAPTER VIII.
Literary Pursuits of Soldiers.-Descartes; B. Jonson; Buch-
anan; Cervantes. -Of Sailors. Dampier; Davis;
Drury; Falconer; Giordani; Fransham; Oswald; Co-
lumbus; Cook; Vancouver; Collingwood
CHAPTER IX.
Literary Pursuits of Merchants. Solon; Guys; D. North;
Ricardo
CHAPTER X.
Literary Pursuits of Booksellers and Printers. Gesner;
Aldus Manutius, Paul, and Aldus the Younger; R.
Stephens; H. Stephens; Scapula; Colinæus ; Badius;
Froben; Oporinus; Ruddiman; Bowyer; Nichols;
Richardson
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