Excerpt from Successful Men of Modern Times
A Few Words About Success In General; What is success?; Maxims; Anticipated advantage from examples
Successful Merchants, Tradesmen, And Manufacturers; Different qualities necessary to success in the departments of trade and manufacture; Jacob Astor; Thomas Caddick; Samuel Budget; Sir Robert Peel
Successful Engineers And Inventors; Importance of inventions; Nature of inventive genius; James Brindley; George Stephenson; Sir Richard Arkwright; Samuel Crompton; Reniiie; Telford
Successful Artists, Painters, And Sculptors; Nature of art; Genius; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Benjamin West; Bartolini; Canova; Bacon
Successful Poets, Scholars, And Men Of Science; Poetry; Necessary cautions; Bernard Barton; Kirke White; Bloomfield; Dr. Alexander Murray; Dr. Samuel Lee; James Ferguson; Dr. John Dalton
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