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" Samuel Smiles stated that he was " the scion of a distinguished Béarnese family "; although it is probable that the poverty of his parents would have excluded him from a learned career if some of the leading Protestants of the district had not charged themselves with the expenses of his education, which was begun under M. Jean de la Placette, the minister of Nay, He studied at Puylaurens, the Academy of Saumur, and the Academy of Sedan, receiving the degree of doctor in theology, it is said, at the age of seventeen.
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Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.
* The Life of Thomas Telford ; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain Samuel Smiles ( 1867 )
This system of achieving rotary motion was patented in his own name by James Watt in October 1781 although Samuel Smiles, biographer of Boulton and Watt, attributes this to Murdoch and there also exists a drawing of the sun and planet system in Murdoch's hand dated August 1781.
* Samuel Smiles, author of Self-Help, 1812 – 1904
For some, George Combe's " Constitution, in the way that it advocated personal responsibility and the possibility of naturally sanctioned self-improvement through education or proper self-control, largely inaugurated the self-help movement ;" but it was Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904 ) who published the first self-consciously personal-development " self-help " book — entitled Self-Help — in 1859.
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* Self-Help ( book ), book published in 1859 by Samuel Smiles
* Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry ( Harper & Brothers, New York, 1885.
* Smiles, Samuel ( 1901 ).
On Holborn Approach ( formerly Institution Street ) is the Temperance Hall and Mechanics ' Institute which was opened by Samuel Smiles in 1851 as an alternative to local pubs for socialising.
His hard work as a proponent and founder of Ragged Schools led him to be quoted by Samuel Smiles in his famous book Self Help.
* Hugh Miller-a brief biography by Samuel Smiles
Following McGregor's resignation in 1854, there followed a decade of factionalism among the directors and equally poor management, described by Samuel Smiles the Company Secretary as ' not so much business as speech-making, that seemed to be the work of the Board.
One of his great-grandfathers was Samuel Smiles ; another was the marine engineer William Hartree, partner of John Penn.
* April 16 – Samuel Smiles, British engineering biographer and railway manager ( born 1812 ).
* 1859 – The first self-help book, Samuel Smiles ’ s Self Help, published
Samuel Smiles described Pease as " a thoughtful and sagacious man, ready in resources, possessed of indomitable energy and perseverance.
* December 23 – Samuel Smiles, British engineering biographer and railway manager ( d. 1904 ).
* Samuel Smiles ( 1812 – 1904 )-social reformer and author of Self Help ( 1859 ), lived in the High Street.
Accordingly, Campbell left 1, 100 troops in Cawnpore for its defence, leading 600 cavalry, 3, 500 infantry and 42 guns to the Alambagh in what Samuel Smiles described as an example of the " women and children first " protocol being applied.
His old Whig principles fitted well with the Self-Help philosophy of another Murray author, Samuel Smiles, who had impressed Darwin.
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Additionally, though the Chronicler's principal source is the Deuteronomistic History, coming primarily, as stated above, from the books of 2 Samuel and 1 – 2 Kings and other public records and sources ( see above ), the Chronicler also uses other biblical sources, particularly from the Pentateuch, as redacted and put together by P ( the Priestly Source ).
In August 2007, Todd Hollenshead stated at QuakeCon 2007 that a Return to Castle Wolfenstein movie is in development which re-teams the Silent Hill writer / producer team, Roger Avary as writer and director and Samuel Hadida as producer.
Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).
In describing his father's occupation, Richardson stated that " he was a good draughtsman and understood architecture ", and it was suggested by Samuel Richardson's son-in-law that the senior Richardson was a cabinetmaker and an exporter of mahogany while working at Aldersgate-street.
On December 7, 1862, Union and Confederate forces clashed along the Arkansas River in and around the town of Van Buren resulting in a defeat for the Confederate army driving them south across the river with minimal casualties, however the Union forces captured 100 prisoners, as stated in a battle report by Samuel R. Curtis, Major General of the Union forces.
Another informant stated that the place was named by Samuel G. Steele, also a native of Scotland.
In a new edition of 1821 he omitted the attack on Bishop Samuel Horsley, and stated that his political opinions had undergone no substantial change.
In May 1764, Samuel Adams of Boston drafted the following that stated the common American position:
Samuel Johnson ( 1775 ) stated that " No man's conscience can tell him the right of another man.
Historian Samuel R. Brown stated 25 killed or fatally injured and 50 wounded in Johnson ’ s regiment and 2 killed and 6-7 wounded in the infantry, for a total of 27 killed and 56 or 57 wounded Harrison informed United States Secretary of War John Armstrong, Jr. that the only casualties inflicted on his command by the British troops at the battle were three men wounded: all of the rest were inflicted by the Indians.
Samuel Goldwyn Films, the film ’ s distributor, stated that the film was not based on the book and is a fictionalized, dramatic presentation.
The main events of Night Watch, set only a few weeks after Vimes joined the Watch, are stated as occurring more than thirty years prior to the present from which Vimes came, this makes Samuel Vimes at least 46 years old at the time of the events of that book.
Dwarfish courtship is an incredibly tactful affair, primarily concerned with finding out which gender the other dwarf is ( this may have been retconned by the time of the novel, ' Thud ', where it is stated that Samuel Vimes, a human, has picked up a knack for judging the gender of dwarfs, making it likely that they are able to tell amongst themselves ).
In a letter written to Samuel Pepys, Newton stated he was
Samuel Lamb ( Lin Xiangao ) has stated that Yun falsely claimed to have fasted without food and water for nearly twice as long as Jesus, and falsely claiming to represent 58 million house-church Christians, and raising large sums of money in many countries.
In December 1683 the British corsair William Ambrose Cowle ( y ), master of the Bachelor's Delight, a ship of 40 guns proceeding on a circumnavigation of the globe, discovered at a latitude stated as 47ºS a previously uncharted and unpopulated island in the South Atlantic which he named " Pepys Island ", for Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty.
In his book, Captain Shelvocke stated that his Second mate, Simon Hatley, shot a black albatross while they were rounding the Cape Horn and this episode in his book served to inspire the central image of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
One early documentation of the term " Hell on Wheels " being used to describe the phenomenon was by Springfield, Massachusetts Republican newspaper editor Samuel Bowles, who also stated the followers were called " hangers-on.
Writing in 1811, Samuel Lewis stated that the village had 60 inhabitants and that the church at Clifton Maybank had " been in ruins for a century ".
Sometime between June 23 – 27, 1844, Smith reportedly stated that " if he and Hyrum were taken away, Samuel H. Smith would be his successor ".
Proponents such as Samuel Clemens and Jack Valenti have stated that owners of intellectual property should have the same perpetual right to retain and bequeath this property to their descendants that owners of material goods already possess.
The earliest reference to cricket at Oxford University is the year 1729 ; no less an authority than Dr Samuel Johnson was a student and later stated that he played cricket there.
Elphinston was a good friend of Samuel Johnson as stated within Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.
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