Samuel Smiles
Samuel Smiles was a British author and government reformer. Although he campaigned on a Chartist platform, he promoted the idea that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His primary work, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. It has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism" and had lasting effects on British political thought.
A Boy's Voyage Round the World
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A Publisher and His Friends / Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843
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Character
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Industrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool Makers
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Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. / Fourth Edition
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Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the Original Soho Mss. / Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine
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Lives of the Engineers / The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
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Men of Invention and Industry
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Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance
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The Huguenots in France
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The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson / Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive
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The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil Engineer / With an Introductory History of Roads and Travelling in Great Britain
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Thrift
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Born/died
1812 — 1904
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