Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women: With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers ...King-Richardson Publishing Company, 1894 - 636 páginas |
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... born to poetry . His father , dis- gusted with the child's constant rhyming , is said to have tried , on a memorable occasion , to expel it from him by a whipping , an exercise that was , however , brought to an abrupt close by the ...
... born to poetry . His father , dis- gusted with the child's constant rhyming , is said to have tried , on a memorable occasion , to expel it from him by a whipping , an exercise that was , however , brought to an abrupt close by the ...
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... born to fortune and to fame , for his father was a man of wealth and large attainments . But few , if any , young men have ever had better opportunities for obtaining eminent success . Nature had endowed this man with all her finest ...
... born to fortune and to fame , for his father was a man of wealth and large attainments . But few , if any , young men have ever had better opportunities for obtaining eminent success . Nature had endowed this man with all her finest ...
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... born is in itself a fortune , and John Wesley was well- born . His father was an able , faithful , and talented preacher , and a writer of note , but it was from his mother that John derived most of the great characteristics that made ...
... born is in itself a fortune , and John Wesley was well- born . His father was an able , faithful , and talented preacher , and a writer of note , but it was from his mother that John derived most of the great characteristics that made ...
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... born to fight innumerable devils and monsters , to remove stumps and stones , to cut down thistles and thorns , and to clear the wild woods . " And right royally did he fulfill his mission . This son of a poor miner was born on St ...
... born to fight innumerable devils and monsters , to remove stumps and stones , to cut down thistles and thorns , and to clear the wild woods . " And right royally did he fulfill his mission . This son of a poor miner was born on St ...
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... born in Kingston , Ont . , July 22 , 1820. He was educated in Kings- ton , subsequently studied law , was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1841 and was created a Queen's Council in 1856. He represented South Ontario in the Canada ...
... born in Kingston , Ont . , July 22 , 1820. He was educated in Kings- ton , subsequently studied law , was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1841 and was created a Queen's Council in 1856. He represented South Ontario in the Canada ...
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