Self-Made Men

ISBN: 9781331358701 出版年：2016 页码：587 Charles C B Seymour Forgotten Books

IN this volume will be found the lives of more than sixty distinguished persons who have attained eminence in spite g of adverse circumstances of birth and fortune. They are 07 presented in the usual biographical form, and with as much fullness as the object in View and the space at command would permit. It has not been deemed necessary to append to each sketch a little sermon to point out its moral tendencies. The real moral of a man's life is found in his actions. These have been related faithfully, and they will, it is believed, convey their lesson without any laborious essay on the part of the.