JUST PLAIN MEN.
Thomas Moore, author of the “Irish Melodies,” was ti e son of a country grocer. Napoleon was a penniless Second Lieutenant in 1785; ir. 18M he was crowned ac. Emperor. Thomas Paine’, author of “The Rights jf Man,” was a staymaker. Samuel Richardson, one of the first famous novelists, was a journeyman printer, the son of a carpenter. William Shakespeare w as the son of a glover in a little country town ; both Ids grandfathers were husbandmen. George Stevenson, the inventor of rhe locomotive, was the son of a fireman nt a colliery, and began life as his father’s helper. Terence, the Roman comic poet, was a slave
Trajan, perhaps the greatest of all Rome’s Emperors, was the son of a .romnion soldier, and began his career in the ranks. Virgil, whose “Aeneid” is the typical Latin epic, was the son of a small tarmer.
.lames Watt, inventor of the condensing steam engine, was the-son of a small merchant, who failed in bust-
nes%. Cardinal Wolsey, Henry VIII.'s famous Prime Minister, was the son ot a butcher.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 120, 6 May 1911, Page 4 (Supplement)
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