Portraits and Principles of the World's Great Men and Women: With Practical Lessons on Successful Life by Over Fifty Leading Thinkers ... |
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... father's vacant chair at Dartmouth , remaining eleven years . On account of scientific discoveries , has been honored with a medal from the French Academy of Science . Has become one of the leading astronomers of the world . REV . HENRY ...
... father's vacant chair at Dartmouth , remaining eleven years . On account of scientific discoveries , has been honored with a medal from the French Academy of Science . Has become one of the leading astronomers of the world . REV . HENRY ...
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... father , do some pity take , and I will no more verses make . " The proceed- ing seems at this day strangely incongruous and out of place , inasmuch as the father himself was given to making " verses . " And , when one time the father ...
... father , do some pity take , and I will no more verses make . " The proceed- ing seems at this day strangely incongruous and out of place , inasmuch as the father himself was given to making " verses . " And , when one time the father ...
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... father's barn , foreshadowed the eminent engineer he was afterward to become . Indeed , the law of heredity ... father simply because the father was in it before him . While this course has very many advantages , it is not always the ...
... father's barn , foreshadowed the eminent engineer he was afterward to become . Indeed , the law of heredity ... father simply because the father was in it before him . While this course has very many advantages , it is not always the ...
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... father was a man of wealth and large attainments . But few , if any , young men have ever had better opportunities for obtaining eminent success . Nature had endowed this man with all her finest gifts . He was so brilliant of intellect ...
... father was a man of wealth and large attainments . But few , if any , young men have ever had better opportunities for obtaining eminent success . Nature had endowed this man with all her finest gifts . He was so brilliant of intellect ...
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... father's house had been set on fire at night by the rabble whom that father's faithfulness had offended , and the inmates by wading through flames had barely escaped with their lives . On the second occasion , this lad , then five years ...
... father's house had been set on fire at night by the rabble whom that father's faithfulness had offended , and the inmates by wading through flames had barely escaped with their lives . On the second occasion , this lad , then five years ...
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