Samuel Smiles: 56 books

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty...

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty...

Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904) was a Scottish author and government reformer who campaigned on a Chartist platform. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. His masterpiece, Self-Help (1859), promoted thrift and claimed that poverty...

Der Engländer Smiles war ein fruchtbarer und dabei erfolgreicher Schriftsteller. Seine Bücher über Selbsthilfe, Charakter, Pflicht, Sparsamkeit und ähnliche praktisch-ethische Themata haben in England eine ungeheure Verbreitung erlangt. Auch die bisherigen deutschen Ausgaben seiner Hauptwerke...

Samuel Smiles wrote the original self help book which has aided people for over 150 years to improve themselves and become more successful.

British engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries constructed awe-inspiring public works, many used and appreciated to this day as much for the elegance of their design as for their function. Here, Samuel Smiles lauds the men—such as John Metcalf, Telford, and George Stephens—behind these...

In a cogent work that advocates industry, thrift, and self-improvement, Samuel Smiles’s most popular book offers readers a path to success by helping individuals “apply themselves diligently to right pursuits—sparing neither labour, pains, nor self-denial in prosecuting them—and to rely upon their own efforts in life.”

Dieses eBook: "Selbsthilfe" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) war ein schottischer Moralschriftsteller. Er war ursprünglich Mediziner, gab aber dann die Praxis auf, um die Redaktion der...

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS THE HUGUENOTS IN FRANCE AFTER THE REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES. PREFACE INTRODUCTION REVOCATION OF THE EDICT OF NANTES EFFECTS OF THE REVOCATION—CHURCH IN THE DESERT CLAUDE BROUSSON, THE HUGUENOT...

This is one of the best inspirational book, it is full of wisdom and instructions about life. This is a really interesting book - it had such a profound effect on its intended audience at the time and still influences contemporary politics. For all that, it's surprisingly easy reading!

Character is one of the greatest motive powers in the world. In its noblest embodiments, it exemplifies human nature in its highest forms, for it exhibits man at his best.

Though the greatest number of Huguenots banished from France at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes were merchants and manufacturers, who transferred their skill and arts to England, which was not then a manufacturing country; a large number of nobles and gentry emigrated to this and other countries,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The present is a revised and in some respects enlarged edition of the 'Life of Telford, ' originally published in the 'Lives of the Engineers, ' to which is prefixed an account of the early roads and modes of travelling in Britain.