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5 February 2024

• 03:5303:53, 5 February 2024 diff hist +1,769 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/171 →Not proofread: Created page with "poetical musings. His study was the kitchen, where his wife's bellows served him for a desk; and he wrote amidst the cries and cradlings of his children. Paine's 'Age of Reason' having appeared about this time and excited much interest, he composed a pamphlet in refutation of its arguments, which was published. He used afterwards to say that it was the 'Age of Reason' that made him an author. Various pamphlets from his pen shortly appeared in rapid succe... Tag: Not proofread
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4 February 2024

• 16:0016:00, 4 February 2024 diff hist +1,746 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/166 →Not proofread: Created page with "only twenty. From French he proceeded to learn German, and rapidly mastered that language. Having taken a large farm, for the purpose of introducing Scotch improvements in the art of agriculture, he shortly succeeded in realizing a considerable income. The continent being thrown open at the end of the war, he travelled abroad for the purpose of inquiring into the system of gardening and agriculture in other countries. He twice repeated his journeys, and... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:5615:56, 4 February 2024 diff hist +1,752 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/162 →Not proofread: Created page with "of which he would occasionally purchase an odd volume, otherwise beyond his means. During his after-life Scott was wont to pride himself upon being a man of business, and he averred, in contradiction to what he called the cant of sonneteers, that there was no necessary connexion between genius and an aversion or contempt for the common duties of life. On the contrary, he was of opinion that to spend some fair portion of every day in any matter-of-fact o... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:5315:53, 4 February 2024 diff hist +1,830 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/161 →Not proofread: Created page with "years. He was a thorough man of business, most orderly in everything; and he was accustomed to say that genius without order lost three-fourths of its power. His great success as a writer was the result mainly of his painstaking labour and diligent application. "Buffon," observed Madame Necker, "strongly persuaded that genius is the result of a profound attention directed to a particular subject, said that he was thoroughly wearied out when composing his... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:4715:47, 4 February 2024 diff hist +1,789 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/160 →Not proofread: Created page with "in getting him up before six. At first, when called, Buffon declined to rise—pleaded that he was ill, or pretended anger at being disturbed; and on the Count at length getting up, Joseph found that he had earned nothing but reproaches for having permitted his master to lie a-bed contrary to his express orders. At length the valet determined to earn his crown; and again and again he forced Buffon to rise, notwithstanding his entreaties, expostulations, an... Tag: Not proofread

3 February 2024

• 14:4514:45, 3 February 2024 diff hist +8 Page:How and what to grow in a kitchen garden of one acre (IA howwhattogrowin00darl).pdf/136 No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 3 February 2024 diff hist +1,751 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/159 →Not proofread: Created page with "dustry of any one man. Not less than two miles of bas-reliefs were thus brought to light by Mr. Layard. The selection of these valuable antiquities, now placed in the British Museum, was found so curiously corroborative of the scriptural records of events which occurred some three thousand years ago, that they burst upon the world almost like a new revelation. And the story of the disentombment of these remarkable works, as told by Mr. Layard himself in... Tag: Not proofread
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• 02:3702:37, 3 February 2024 diff hist +1,780 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/158 →Not proofread: Created page with "submitted; and so accurate was his knowledge, that, though he had never seen the Behistun rock, he pronounced that the cadet had not copied the puzzling inscription with proper exactness. Rawlinson, who was still in the neighbourhood of the rock, compared his copy with the original, and found that Norris was right; and by further comparison and careful study the knowledge of the cuneiform writing was thus greatly advanced. But to make the learning of th... Tag: Not proofread

2 February 2024

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• 16:0616:06, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,349 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/302 →Not proofread: Created page with "{{c|{{l|CHAPTER VIII}} {{l|{{sc|Energy and Courage}}}} }} {{rule|5em}} {{fine|"A cœur vaillant rien d'impossible."}}—''Jacques Cœur''. {{fine|"Den Muthigen gehört die Welt."}}—''German Proverb''. {{fine|"In every work that he began {{...}} he did it with all his heart, and prospered."}}—''II. Chron''. xxxi. 21. {{rule|5em}} {{initial|T|{{sc|here}}}} is a famous speech recorded of an old Norseman, thoroughly characteristic of th... Tag: Not proofread
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• 15:4915:49, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,802 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/157 →Not proofread: Created page with "motive for some fifteen years before achieving his decisive victory at Rainhill; and Watt was engaged for some thirty years upon the condensing-engine before he brought it to perfection. But there are equally striking illustrations of perseverance to be found in every other branch of science, art, and industry. Perhaps one of the most interesting is that connected with the disentombment of the Nineveh marbles, and the discovery of the long-lost cuneiform... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:4315:43, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,753 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/156 →Not proofread: Created page with "destroyed, is a well-known anecdote, and need not be repeated: it is said that the loss caused the philosopher such profound grief that it seriously injured his health, and impaired his understanding. An accident of a somewhat similar kind happened to the MS. of Mr. Carlyle's first volume of his 'French Revolution.' He had lent the MS. to a literary neighbour to peruse. By some mischance, it had been left lying on the parlour floor, and become forgotten.... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:3715:37, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,745 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/155 →Not proofread: Created page with "far enthusiasm—for by no other name can I call my perseverance—may enable the preserver of nature to surmount the most disheartening difficulties. I left the village of Henderson, in Kentucky, situated on the banks of the Ohio, where I resided for several years, to proceed to Philadelphia on business. I looked to my drawings before my departure, placed them carefully in a wooden box, and gave them in charge of a relative, with injunctions to see that no... Tag: Not proofread
• 15:2815:28, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,740 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/154 →Not proofread: Created page with "whether Carey had not once been a shoemaker: "No, sir," exclaimed Carey immediately; "only a cobbler." An eminently characteristic anecdote has been told of his perseverance as a boy. When climbing a tree one day, his foot slipped, and he fell to the ground, breaking his leg by the fall. He was confined to his bed for weeks, but when he recovered and was able to walk without support, the very first thing he did was to go and climb that tree. Carey had ne... Tag: Not proofread
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• 13:3813:38, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,813 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/153 →Not proofread: Created page with "Labourers for the public good especially, have to work long and patiently, often uncheered by the prospect of immediate recompense or result. The seeds they sow sometimes lie hidden under the winter's snow, and before the spring comes the husbandman may have gone to his rest. It is not every public worker who, like Rowland Hill, sees his great idea bring forth fruit in his life-time. Adam Smith sowed the seeds of a great social amelio... Tag: Not proofread
• 09:0309:03, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,735 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/152 →Not proofread: Created page with "Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. De Maistre says that "to know ''how to wait'' is the great secret of success." We must sow before we can reap, and often have to wait long, content meanwhile to look patiently forward in hope; the fruit best worth waiting for often ripening the slowest. But "time and patience," says th... Tag: Not proofread
• 08:2708:27, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,756 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/151 →Not proofread: Created page with "discipline and repetition that the late Sir Robert Peel cultivated those remarkable, though still mediocre powers, which rendered him so illustrious an ornament of the British Senate. When a boy at Drayton Manor, his father was accustomed to set him up at table to practise speaking extempore; and he early accustomed him to repeat as much of the Sunday's sermon as he could remember. Little progress was made at first, but by steady perseverance the habit o... Tag: Not proofread
• 08:1008:10, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,779 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/150 →Not proofread: Created page with "mind is like a beehive; but full as it is of buzz and apparent confusion, it is yet full of order and regularity, and food collected with incessant industry from the choicest stores of nature." We have, indeed, but to glance at the biographies of great men to find that the most distinguished inventors, artists, thinkers, and workers of all kinds, owe their success, in a great measure, to their indefatigable industry and application. They were men who tur... Tag: Not proofread
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• 08:0608:06, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,733 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/149 →Not proofread: Created page with "with the whole energy of my mind upon the subject. The extraordinary results effected by dint of sheer industry and perseverance, have led many distinguished men to doubt whether the gift of genius be so exceptional an endowment as it is usually supposed to be. Thus Voltaire held that it is only a very slight line of separation that divides the man of genius from the man of ordinary mould. Beccaria was even of opinion that all men might be poets and ora... Tag: Not proofread
• 02:2802:28, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,735 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/148 →Not proofread: Created page with "are found the most useful—such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. Genius may not be necessary, though even genius of the highest sort does not disdain the use of these ordinary qualities. The very greatest men have been among the least believers in the power of genius, and as worldly wise and persevering as successful men of the commoner sort. Some have even defined genius to be only common sense intensified. A distinguished teach... Tag: Not proofread
• 02:2102:21, 2 February 2024 diff hist +1,770 N Page:Self-help with illustrations of conduct and perseverance (IA selfhelpwithillu00smiliala).pdf/142 →Not proofread: Created page with "He bid as high as seventeen hundred guineas for it: her grace secured it for eighteen hundred; but when she learnt Wedgwood's object she at once generously lent him the vase to copy. He produced fifty copies at a cost of about 2500''l''., and his expenses were not covered by their sale; but he gained his object, which was to show that whatever had been done, that English skill and energy could and would accomplish. Wedgwood called to his aid the crucibl... Tag: Not proofread