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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Page

INTRODUCTION. Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pascal;

Prince Rupert; Montgolfier. Self-education

1

CHAPTER 11.

Strength of the Passion for Knowledge. Pythagoras ; Archi-

medes ; Leibnitz; Galileo; Heyne

19

.

CHAPTER II.

Humble Station no Obstacle. Epictetus; Protagoras; Cle-

anthes; Haüy; Winckelman; Arnigio; Duval.—Affec-

tation of high birth. Bandinelli ; Scaliger.-Men proud

of their low Origin. Protogones; Baudouin ; Gelli.--

Obscure origin. Metastasio ; Haydn; Opie; Parini ;

Prideaux ; Saunders; Linnæus ; Lomonosoff ; B. Jonson;

the Milners; John Hunter.-Application of Examples, 31

CHAPTER IV.

Artists rising from the lower to the higher branches. B. Cel-

lini; Q. Matsys; Ibbetson; Kent; Towne; Kirby ;

Schiavoni ; Hogarth ; Sharp; Thew; Caslon.—Late

learners. Cromwell; Sir W. Jones; Cato Censor;

Alfred ; Moliere; Valerianus;

Vondel; Pitot; Paucton;

Ogilby

56
CHAPTER V.

Page

Early Age of Great Men. Short Term of their Lives. New-

ton; Gregory; Torricelli; Pascal; Cowper; Burns;

Byron ; Sydney; Otway ; Collins; Mozart; Raphael

Correggio ; Politian ; Mirandola

71

CHAPTER VI,

Self-educated Men, T. Simpson

87

CHAPTER VII.

Self-educated Men continued. E. Stone ; J. Stone. - Pursuit

of Knowledge and Business united. Cicero; Jones;

Cæsar; Scipio ; Polybius; Frederick II.; Sully; De

Thou; More; Selden; Hale ; Grotius

99

CHAPTER VIII.

Literary Pursuits of Soldiers.—Descartes ; B. Jonson ; Buch-

anan; Cervantes. -Of Sailors. Dampier; Davis;

Drury; Falconer;

Giordani ; Fransham ; Oswald ; Co-

lumbus; Cook; Vancouver; Collingwood

123

CHAPTER 1X.

Literary Pursuits of Merchants. Solon ; Guys; D. North;

Ricardo

137

CHAPTER X.

Literary Pursuits of Booksellers and Printers. Gesner;

Aldus Manutius, Paul, and Aldus the Younger; R.

Stephens ; H. Stephens ; Scapula ; Colinæus ; Badius;

Froben ; Oporinus; Ruddiñan ; Bowyer ; Nichols ;

Richardson

153
CHAPTER XI.

Page

Booksellers and Printers continued. W. Hutton ; R.

Dodsley; Almon; Cruden; the Panckouckes; Roth-

scholtz; Bayford; Ames; Herbert; Patterson.—Lite-

rary Pursuits in other Trades. Walton ; Defoe; Lillo 172

CHAPTER XII.

Self-educated men continued. Ferguson.-Influence of ac-

cident in directing pursuits. Rennie, Linnæns; Vernet;

Caravaggio; Tassie ; Chatterton ; Harrison ; Edwards;

Villars; Joly; Jourdan; Bandinelli; Palissy

196

CHAPTER XVI.

Devotion to Knowledge in extreme poverty. Erasmus;

Kepler; Schaeffer; Bullinger; Musculus; Postellus ;

Castalio ; Adrian YI.; Perrier; Claude Lorraine; Sal-

vator Rosa ; Marmontel; Hoche; Lagrange; Dr. John-

son; Dr. Parr; Spagnoletto ; Le Jay; Castell; Davies;

Tytler ; William Davy.-In exile and Imprisonment.

Ovid; Boethius: Buchanan; Tasso; Smart; Maggi;

Le Maistre; Lorenzini"; Prynne; Madame Roland;

Raleigh ; Lady Jane Grey; James I. (of Scotland);

Lovelace

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