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Title: Footprints of Famous Men: Designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry

Author: John G. Edgar

Release date: January 12, 2020 [eBook #61153]
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Language: English

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FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS MEN.

DESIGNED AS

INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY.

By JOHN G. EDGAR,

AUTHOR OF “THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN.”

The heights by great men reached and kept,
 Were not attained by sudden flight,
 But they, while their companions slept,
 Were toiling upward in the night.

Longfellow.

With Illustrations.

NEW YORK:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
1854.

“Magna etiam illa laus, et admirabilis videri solet, tulisse casus sapienter adversos, non fractum esse fortuna, retinuisse in rebus asperis dignitatem.”

Cicero de Orat.

PHILADELPHIA:
PRINTED BY KING & BAIRD,
SANSOM STREET.

CONTENTS.

    PAGE
I.—MEN OF ACTION.
  WASHINGTON 9
  BURKE 44
  NECKER 68
  PITT 82
  LORD ERSKINE 103
  LORD COLLINGWOOD 123
  LORD TEIGNMOUTH 143
II.—MEN OF LETTERS.
  DEAN MILNER 159
  DAVID HUME 180
  ROBERT SOUTHEY 200
  THOMAS MOORE 226
III.—ARTISTS.
  SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS 243
  SIR FRANCIS CHANTREY 272
  SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN 289
IV.—MEN OF SCIENCE.
  DR. WILLIAM HUNTER 305
  BLACK 324
  BRINDLEY 332
  WATT 340
  ADAM SMITH 348

LIST OF PLATES.

MOORE AND SCOTT IN THE RHYMER’S GLEN Frontis.
YOUNG WASHINGTON’S MILITARY ASPIRATIONS Page   11
BURKE READING TO HIS MOTHER 46
ERSKINE’S FIRST SUCCESSES 116
COLLINGWOOD’S JUVENILE GENEROSITY 130
MILNER RESCUED FROM THE LOOM 166
SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS AT BLENHEIM 267
CHANTREY’S EARLY STUDIES 277