UNDER

DIFFICULTIES;

ITS PLEASURES AND REWARDS.

ILLUSTRATED BY

MEMOIRS OF EMINENT MEN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

NEW-YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-STREET.

1840.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

HARPER & BROTHERS,

In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

CHAPTER I.

Pursuit of Knowledge by Persons of Wealth: Napier; Loga-

rithms

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Diversities of Intellectual Excellence. - Artists. - Benjamin

West

Usefulness of such encouragements as the examples here given

are calculated to afford to youthful genius in every depart-

ment of Study. Self-educated Poets: Ramsay; Bloomfield;

H. K. White; Hawksworth; Goldsmith.

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