Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life. Orison Swett Marden

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       Orison Swett Marden

      Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4057664607362

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       STORIES FROM LIFE

       TO-DAY

       "THE MILL BOY OF THE SLASHES"

       THE GREEK SLAVE WHO WON THE OLIVE CROWN

       TURNING POINTS IN THE LIFE OF A HERO

       HE AIMED HIGH AND HIT THE MARK

       THE EVOLUTION OF A VIOLINIST

       THE LESSON OF THE TEAKETTLE

       HOW THE ART OF PRINTING WAS DISCOVERED

       SEA FEVER AND WHAT IT LED TO

       GLADSTONE FOUND TIME TO BE KIND

       A TRIBUNE OF THE PEOPLE

       THE MIGHT OF PATIENCE

       THE INSPIRATION OF GAMBETTA

       ANDREW JACKSON THE BOY WHO "NEVER WOULD GIVE UP"

       SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S GREATEST DISCOVERY, MICHAEL FARADAY

       THE TRIUMPH OF CANOVA

       FRANKLIN'S LESSON ON TIME VALUE

       FROM STORE BOY TO MILLIONAIRE

       "I WILL PAINT OR DIE!"

       THE CALL THAT SPEAKS IN THE BLOOD

       WASHINGTON'S YOUTHFUL HEROISM

       A COW HIS CAPITAL

       THE BOY WHO SAID "I MUST"

       THE HIDDEN TREASURE

       LOVE TAMED THE LION

       "THERE IS ROOM ENOUGH AT THE TOP"

       THE UPLIFT OF A SLAVE BOY'S IDEAL

       "TO THE FIRST ROBIN"

       THE "WIZARD" AS AN EDITOR

       HOW GOOD FORTUNE CAME TO PIERRE

       "IF I REST, I RUST"

       A BOY WHO KNEW NOT FEAR

       HOW STANLEY FOUND LIVINGSTONE

       THE NESTOR OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS

       THE MAN WITH AN IDEA

       "BERNARD OF THE TUILERIES"

       HOW THE "LEARNED BLACKSMITH" FOUND TIME

       THE LEGEND OF WILLIAM TELL

       "WESTWARD HO!"

       THREE GREAT AMERICAN SONGS AND THEIR AUTHORS

       TRAINING FOR GREATNESS

       THE MARBLE WAITETH

PREFACE

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      To make a life, as well as to make a living, is one of the supreme objects for which we must all struggle. The sooner we realize what this means, the greater and more worthy will be the life which we shall make.

      In putting together the brief life stories and incidents from great lives which make up the pages of this little volume, the writer's object has been to show young people that, no matter how humble their birth or circumstances, they may make lives that will be held up as examples to future generations, even as these stories show how boys, handicapped by poverty and the most discouraging surroundings, yet succeeded so that they are held up as models to the boys of to-day.

      No boy or girl can learn too early in life the value of time and the opportunities within reach of the humblest children of the twentieth century to enable them to make of themselves noble men and women.

      The stories here