Sarah Knowles Bolton: 8 books

Collection of 7 Works Sarah Knowles Bolton   A Country Idyl and Other Stories Famous American Statesmen Famous European Artists Famous Givers and Their Gifts Famous Men of Science Lives of Girls Who Became Famous Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous  

IN THE midst of New England mountains, covered with pine and cedar, lies the quiet town of Nineveh, looking towards the sea. Years ago it had mills where lumber was sawed and grain was ground; but now the old wheels alone are left, the dams are broken, and the water falls over the scattered rocks,...

Harriet Beecher Stowe Helen Hunt Jackson Lucretia Mott Mary A Livermore Margaret Fuller Ossoli Maria Mitchell Louisa M Alcott Mary Lyon Harriet G Hosmer Madame de Staël Rosa Bonheur Elizabeth Barrett Browning "George Eliot" Elizabeth Fry Elizabeth Thompson Butler Florence Nightingale Lady Brassey Baroness Burdett-Coutts Jean Ingelow

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much of struggle, and we need to be cheered and stimulated...

Napoleon said, "My maxim has always been, a career open to talent without distinction of birth." It will be seen in these pages that most of these men rose to leadership by their own efforts. Napoleon was poor, and often without employment in early life, but his industry, good judgment,...

Garfield said, "No page of human history is so instructive and significant as the record of those early influences which develop the character and direct the lives of eminent men." These sketches show how young men have overcome difficulties, sometimes poverty, sometimes illness; how they have made...

GEORGE WASHINGTON. The "purest figure in history," wrote William E. Gladstone of George Washington. When Frederick the Great sent his portrait to Washington, he sent with it these remarkable words: "From the oldest general in Europe to the greatest general in the world." Lord Brougham said: "It will...