This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...to say "specia." Back and back again--the phonograph would only say "pecia." He could not make it report the "j"-sound. Says the great discoverer, "It was enough to drive one mad, but I held firm and I succeeded." The "little wave" "had beat admission" through the hard rock. Said Ole Bull, "If I practice one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...to say "specia." Back and back again--the phonograph would only say "pecia." He could not make it report the "j"-sound. Says the great discoverer, "It was enough to drive one mad, but I held firm and I succeeded." The "little wave" "had beat admission" through the hard rock. Said Ole Bull, "If I practice one day I can see the result. If I practice two days, my friends can see it. If I practice three days, the great public can see it." Kitto, a great biblical scholar, was a deaf pauper who used to patch shoes in the almshouse. But he studied and studied, and wrote and wrote, and he gained admission. The little wave must beat often against the rock of difficulty before it gains admission even in the name of genius. It is easy to find stories of those who have become great through patience and diligence. I would like to tell how Elias Howe, while perfecting the sewingmachine in London, lived on beans which he cooked himself; how Titian, the great artist, used to crush flowers in order to make his colors, because he had no money to buy them. And you will think for yourselves of the story of our Abraham Lincoln who, from the log cabin in Indiana, worked his way to the White House and into the hearts of the civilized world, until his name has become the best-loved name of the nineteenth century. Green's History of the English People is perhaps the best history of England yet written. He wrote it when fighting with a mortal disease. He dictated some of his great works while lying on a bed of suffering, day by day awaiting death; too weak to lift a book or hold a pen, but so anxious to do it well that he redictated some of the chapters five times and kept at it and at it, and not until...
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Very Good Minus. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on front cover, if lettering on spine was once gilt, it is now completely rubbed away. Corners and spine ends lightly bumped and worn, a few very small pieces of old tape on spine, cover shows light rubbing. Page edges somewhat tanned. Ex-library with a few neat markings. Binding secure, pages lightly tanned, a few brief (mostly pencil) pencil markings. 453 pages. Packaged carefully for shipment in cardboard with U. S. tracking. Oversized or heavy books may require extra postage for priority or international shipment.
