Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them
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Little Visits with Great Americans, Vol. 2 (of 2): Or Success, Ideals and How to Attain Them
Success; United States -- Biography; United States -- History -- 19th century -- Biography
Willingness, _see Success Qualities_.
Will power, _see Success Qualities_.
“Wisdom,” statue, _Ruckstuhl_, 362
Wives, influence of, _see Influence_.
“Woody Crest,” _Gould_, 415
Women, education for, _see Education_.
=Work:=
Ability to work hard, _Roosevelt_, 176
Eight-hour work day, _Gompers_, 170
Heart and soul in, _Lipton_, 113
I like it, _Edison_, 27, 29
I must work and perfect myself, _Nordica_, 545
Influence of, _Markham_, 269
Keynote of success, _Mills_, 117
Let the work show, _Herreshoff_, 532
Literary life means work, _Riley_, 260
Love your work, _Mansfield_, 380
Making a great voice, _Nordica_, 542
“Man with the Hoe,” _Markham_, 264
Moderate number of hours, _Depew_, 214
Nobility of work, _Collyer_, 445
Record of steady work, _Abbey_, 317
Short hours, _Field_, 88
Twenty hours a day, _Edison_, 27
Work all the time, _Gibson_, 349
Work hard on long lines, _Collyer_, 445
Work incessantly, _Gibson_, 349
“Work is to my taste,” _Vanderbilt_, 140
Work long time without sleep, _Wanamaker_, 105
Working hours, _Gunsaulus_, 438
Work, _see Success Qualities_.
Work hard, _see Success Qualities_.
Writers, biographies of, _see Careers_.
Yachting, _see Recreation_.
Yale College, _Conwell_, 427
Young men, _see Start in life_.
Zeal, _see Success Qualities_.
FOOTNOTE:
[B] For Biographical Index see page 724.
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Transcriber’s note:
Obvious punctuation errors were corrected.
Varied hyphenation was retained.
Many minor variations in capitalization, punctuation, etc., were
noted between the table of Contents and the Chapter Headings
themselves. These were retained as printed.
Page 449, “opinons” changed to “opinions” (opinions of right)
Page 465, “adminstrator” changed to “administrator” (as a public
administrator)
Page 504, “busines” changed to “business” (As our business increased)
Page 507, “faithfuly” changed to “faithfully” (faithfully serve the)
Page 574, as this error is on a plate, the correction will only appear
in the text version. “MacCracken” changed to “McCracken” (H. M.
McCracken)
Page 579, as this error is on a plate, the correction will only appear
in the text version. “Calve” changed to “Calvé” (Emma Calvé.)
Page 583, as this error is on a plate, the correction will only appear
in the text version. “Menté” changed to “Mente” (Charles Mente)
Page 617, article on William Boyd Allison states that he served in
Dubuque, Ohio. Actually he was in Dubuque, Iowa. The text has been
preserved as printed but the error is noted here.
Page 623, “1862” changed to “1882” (in 1882 he graduated at the)
Page 643, “Brownville” changed to “Brownsville” (town of Brownsville,
Tenn.)
Page 644, “RENE” changed to “RENÉ” (FREDERICK RENÉ COUDERT.)
Page 650, “WINFIED” changed to “WINFIELD” (WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY.)
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