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
EAN 4057664607362
Table of Contents
THE GREEK SLAVE WHO WON THE OLIVE CROWN
TURNING POINTS IN THE LIFE OF A HERO
HE AIMED HIGH AND HIT THE MARK
HOW THE ART OF PRINTING WAS DISCOVERED
GLADSTONE FOUND TIME TO BE KIND
ANDREW JACKSON THE BOY WHO "NEVER WOULD GIVE UP"
SIR HUMPHRY DAVY'S GREATEST DISCOVERY, MICHAEL FARADAY
FRANKLIN'S LESSON ON TIME VALUE
THE CALL THAT SPEAKS IN THE BLOOD
"THERE IS ROOM ENOUGH AT THE TOP"
THE UPLIFT OF A SLAVE BOY'S IDEAL
HOW GOOD FORTUNE CAME TO PIERRE
THE NESTOR OF AMERICAN JOURNALISTS
HOW THE "LEARNED BLACKSMITH" FOUND TIME
THREE GREAT AMERICAN SONGS AND THEIR AUTHORS
PREFACE
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