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HARVARD COLLEGE
Oct 15.1929
LIBRARY
Mrs. Mary B. Horne
35-780
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION. Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pascal;
Prince Rupert; Montgolfier. Self-education
CHAPTER II.
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Strength of the Passion for Knowledge. Pythagoras; Archi-
medes; Leibnitz; Galileo; Heyne
CHAPTER III.
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Humble Station no Obstacle. Epictetus; Protagoras; Cle-
anthes; Hauy; Winckelman; Arnigio; Duval.-Affec
tation of high birth. Bandinelli; Scaliger.-Men proud
of their low Origin. Protogones; Baudouin; Gelli.-
Obscure origin. Metastasio; Haydn; Opie; Parini;
Prideaux; Saunders; Linnæus; Lomonosoff; B. Jonson;
the Milners; John Hunter.-Application of examples. 31
CHAPTER IV.
Artists rising from the lower to the higher branches. B. Cel-
lini; Q. Matsys; Ibbetson; Kent; Towne; Kirby;
Schiavoni; Hogarth; Sharp; Thew; Caslon.-Late
learners. Cromwell; Sir W. Jones; Cato Censor;
Alfred: Moliere; Valerianus; Vondell; Pitot; Paucton;
Ogilby
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CHAPTER V.
Early age of great men. Short term of their Lives. New-
ton; Gregory; Torricelli; Pascal; Cowper; Burns;
Byron; Sydney; Otway; Collins; Mozart; Raphael
Correggio; Politian; Mirandola
71
CHAPTER VI.
87
Self-educated Men. T. Simpson
CHAPTER VII.
Self-educated Men continued. E. Stone; J. Stone. Pursuit
of Knowledge and Business united. Cicero; Jones;
Cæsar; Scipio; Polybius; Frederick II.; Sully; De
Thou; More; Selden; Hale; Grotius
CHAPTER VIII.
Literary Pursuits of Soldiers.-Descartes; B. Jonson; Buch-
anan; Cervantes.-Of Sailors. Dampier; Davis;
Drury; Falconer; Giordani; Fransham; Oswald; Co-
lumbus; Cook; Vancouver; Collingwood
CHAPTER IX.
Literary Pursuits of Merchants. Solon; Guys; D. North;
Ricardo
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123
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CHAPTER X.
Literary Pursuits of Booksellers and Printers. Gesner;
Aldus Manutius, Paul, and Aldus the Younger; R.
Stephens; H. Stephens; Scapula; Colinæus; Badius;
Froben; Oporinus; Ruddiman; Bowyer; Nichols;
Richardson
153
CHAPTER XI.
Booksellers and Printers continued. W. Hutton; R.
Dodsley; Almon; Cruden; the Panckouckes; Roth-
scholtz; Bayford; Ames; Herbert; Patterson.-Lite-
rary Pursuits in other Trades. Walton; Defoe; Lillo 172
CHAPTER XII.
Self-educated men continued. Ferguson.-Influence of ac-
cident in directing pursuits. Rennie,Linnæus; Vernet;
Caravaggio; Tassie; Chatterton; Harrison; Edwards;
Villars; Joly; Jourdan; Bandinelli; Palissy
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Devotion to Knowledge in extreme poverty. Erasmus;
Kepler; Schaeffer; Bullinger; Musculus; Postellus;
Castalio; Adrian VI.; Perrier; Claude Lorraine; Sal-
vator Rosa; Marmontel; Hoche; Lagrange; Dr John-
son; Dr Parr; Spagnoletto; Le Jay; Castell; Davies;
Tytler; William Davy. In exile and Imprisonment.
Ovid; Boethius: Buchanan; Tasso; Smart; Maggi;
Le Maistre; Lorenzini; Prynne; Madame Roland;
Raleigh; Lady Jane Grey; James I. (of Scotland);
Lovelace
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CHAPTER XVII.
Natural Defects overcome. Demosthenes; De Beaumont;
Navarete; Saunderson; Rugendas; Diodotus; Didy-
mus; Eusebius; Nicaise; De Pagan; Galileo; Euler;
Moyes
284
CHAPTER XVIII.
Difficulties occasioned by Blindness conquered. Homer;
Milton; Salinus; Stanley; Metcalf; Henry the min-
strel; Scapinelli; Blacklock; Anna Williams; Huber 304
CHAPTER XIX.
Account of James Brindley; Canals
CHAPTER XX.
Knowledge of Languages. Magliabecchi; Hill; Wild;
Aram; Purver; Pendrell
CHAPTER XXI.
Force of Application. Dr Alexander Murray
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