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Samuel Jr Smiles
A continuation of the author’s Lives of the engineers.
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In Happy Homes and the Hearts That Make Them, Samuel Smiles promotes such old-fashioned virtues as honor, duty, honesty, and hard work. Old-fashioned, maybe, but needed more than ever in…
Title: The Huguenots: their settlements, churches, and industries in England and Ireland.
Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana…
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Title: The Huguenots: their settlements, churches, and industries in England and Ireland.Author: Samuel SmilesPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1876 Edition.
The classic work for those who want to improve their lives by improving themselves. Samuel Smiles discusses the underlying principles that can lead anyone to success, including work, courage, self-control…
This volume is dedicated to helping people to apply themselves diligently to right pursuits–sparing neither labour, pains, nor self-denial in prosecuting them–and to rely upon their own efforts in life…
Samuel Smiles
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1861 Original Publisher: Harper
SAMUEL SMILES (1812 - 1904), was a Scottish author and reformer.He is best known today as the writer of books extolling virtues of self help, and biographies.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.
Written in the mid-19th century, this book is a collection of biographical sketches of prominent iron workers and tool makers of the time. The author celebrates the ingenuity and hard…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
From prehistory to James Naysmith and William Fairbairn.
A tribute to the working- and lower-middle classes, this book encapsulates the aspirational Victorian desire for social advancement. Part practical guide, part proverbial testament, part secular hagiography, it turns biography…
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Originally published in 1859, this book is a seminal work of self-improvement literature. Drawing on the lives of famous figures throughout history, Samuel Smiles offers insights into the qualities and…
I have had pleasure in editing this travel diary, not only because it is the work of my youngest son, but also because it contains the results of a good…
