HARD ON HERCULES.
-'Mrs.'Shalor, ,wMow pf tho lato professor of Harvard College, has written a charming " littlo volume" on • "Masters' of J'ato," in which she'' shows that littlo; men, ..careful and not Strenuous men, aro, the masters of the world.There was Kant, who could only have to work by taking caro of himself constantly. , Voltaire was supposed to bo dead when born and .if a nurse girl had not unconsciously sat upon him, making him cry out,- he might really havo died.'; Newton was so small that you could put him in a pint cup when born and even Webster was tho despair of his parents wlfo never oxpected to th\Bß liiiay • » . .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 143, 11 March 1908, Page 3
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