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The Secret of Success; Or, How to Get on in the World, with Some Remarks Upon True and False Success, and the Art of Making the Best Use of Life

The Secret of Success; Or, How to Get on in the World, with Some Remarks Upon True and False Success, and the Art of Making the Best Use of Life


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. A STEADY PURPOSE. THE severest censure that can be passed upon a man is that of the poet's: ? Everything by turns and nothing long. The words contain a sad revelation of wasted opportunities, wasted powers, wasted life. They have always seemed to us to apply, with a painful degree of exactness, to the career of Lord Brougham. Few men have been more richly endowed by nature. Few men have exhibited a greater plasticity of intellect, a greater affluence of mental resources. He was a fine orator, a clear thinker, a ready writer. It is seldom that a man who sways immense audiences by the power of his eloquence attains also to a high position in the ranks of literature. Yet this Brougham did; while, as a lawyer, he gained the most splendid prize of his profession, the Lord Chancellorship of England, and, as a scientific investigator, merited and received the applause of scientific men. All this may seem to indicate success; and, to a certain extent, Brougham was successful. Not the less, having been everything by turns and nothing long?having given up to many pursuits the powers which should have been reserved for one or two?he was, on the whole, a failure. Not only did he fail to make any permanent mark on the history or literature of his country, but he even outlived his own fame. He was almost forgotten before he died. He frittered away his genius on too many objects; while every schoolboy knows, that to secure the greatest possible amount of solar energy, you must concentrate the rays upon a single focus. Miss Martineau has happily said, that when we think of Lord Brougham, the often-quoted apologue of the Duchess of Orleans respecting her son, the Regent, involuntarily occurs to the mind. He was one on whom, in his cradle, beneficent fairies had lavishe...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217130035
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 104
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217130038
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 200 gr


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