Footprints of Famous Men: Designed as Incitements to Intellectual Industry

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DESIGNED AS
INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY.
By JOHN G. EDGAR,
AUTHOR OF “THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN.”
The heights by great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
Longfellow.
With Illustrations.
NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS. 1854.
“Magna etiam illa laus, et admirabilis videri solet, tulisse casus sapienter adversos, non fractum esse fortuna, retinuisse in rebus asperis dignitatem.”
Cicero de Orat .
PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY KING & BAIRD, SANSOM STREET.