Clever boys of our time, by the author of Famous boys1860 |
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Abel Heywood Academy acquired admirable afterwards amongst amusing Arago attained attention became Bianconi Brotherton Bude-light called Captain character Charles Charles Bianconi Charles Dickens Clonmel Cobden commenced course Dargan death determined devoted Dickens Disraeli doubt duties earnest Edinburgh elected eminent employed enabled England entered Exhibition experience Fairbairn fame famous father fortune French friends George Cruikshank heart Heywood honour hope Horner House of Commons industry interest James Gordon Bennett John Kitto Joseph Hume knowledge labour letter literary literature living London Lord Macaulay Manchester Mary Howitt MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ment Midhurst mind never obtained occasion orator paper Parliament period perseverance position powers preached present published reader result returned Richard Cobden Royal Samuel Drew ships sketches Society speech success talents thought tion town vessels volume William William Dargan writing wrote young youth
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Page 215 - For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found : surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
Page 30 - Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought.
Page 41 - Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expectation, and that a pen-and-ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous.
Page 12 - This leads me to remark, that though speaking with writing beforehand is very well until the habit of easy speech is acquired, yet after that he can never write too much ; this is quite clear. It is laborious, no doubt ; and it is more difficult beyond comparison than speaking off-hand ; but it is necessary to perfect oratory, and at any rate it is necessary to acquire the habit of correct diction. But I go further, and say, even to the end of a man's life he must prepare word for word most of his...
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