Successful Men of Modern Times (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Successful Men of Modern Times<br><br>A Few Words About Success In General; What is success; Maxims; Anticipated advantage from examples<br><br>Successful Merchants, Tradesmen, And Manufacturers; Different qualities necessary to success in the departments of trade and manufacture; Jacob Astor; Thomas Caddick; Samuel Budget; Sir Robert Peel<br><br>Successful Engineers And Inventors; Importance of inventions; Nature of inventive genius; James Brindley; George Stephenson; Sir Richard Arkwright; Samuel Crompton; Reniiie; Telford<br><br>Successful Artists, Painters, And Sculptors; Nature of art; Genius; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Benjamin West; Bartolini; Canova; Bacon<br><br>Successful Poets, Scholars, And Men Of Science; Poetry; Necessary cautions; Bernard Barton; Kirke White; Bloomfield; Dr. Alexander Murray; Dr. Samuel Lee; James Ferguson; Dr. John Dalton<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.