The North-Carolina standard., 1850-05-01
NuMHER sos.
MEN OF GENUS.


Chambers, in the Edinburgh Journal, says, that
upon examining Biographical Dictionary containing
hve thousand distinguished character. o al ages and
natons the greatest proportion were Fenchen, next
and Others The given for there being greater
number of Frenchmen is that in France eenins 10
more patronzed, no matter in what circamstance il
occurs, while in England few persons Of talent, if
,ney are not nch or well dressed, have any hancs Of
| being known. .s .ssEs 80 -
One half of these Eve thousand were descended
poor parents, and raised themselves from depths
ot poverty by their own exertions. 7ssS -
ihe following are among those who have struggled
win poverty, and succeeded in bene6tng the world
AssoP, Terence and Epictetus, men distinguished
In ancient times were slaves their first outset in
life Professor Heyne of Gottington one of the FIRST
classical scholars of his age, was the Of poor
agd 9s ss The .,Ss
matician, was left at the steps of church by his pa
rents, and was brought up bya poor swouan. He
arrived at great celebrity bat forgot his nurse.
Masanlelo, who headed successful rsvolt against
the Austrian government at Naples was poor seler
OF fish. Sir Richard Arkwright, the inventor sf the
machinery for cotton spinning, country barber,
or dealer in hair. Miss Benger the authoress Of the
Life of Mary Queen of Scots, - and other produce
sake of reading she used perse the pages Of books
in the booksellers windows. and returned day after
day to see if another page had been turned over.
Sir Edmund Saunders, Chief Justice Of the Kings
DeHch III ne reign OF ChareS the SECOND, was an
rand boy The famous Ben Johnson worked some years
as brickiayer. Kepler spent his life in poverty.
Pope Adrian W. could not in early life afford candles
ne often read by the light of the street lamps. Claude
OF Lorraine, was the apprentice of pastry cook.
Sir Humphry Davy was the son Of carver on wood,
and was apprentced to apothecary. Dr.. Isaac
Mlimer, professor of mathematics at Cambridge, was
weaver. DR.. White. professor of Arabic at Oxford,
was weaver in his youth. Edmund Stone, the ia.
nous mathematician, gardeners boy, and taught
himself to read. Buchanan, the Scottish hiatorian,
was born Of poor parents, and underwent many diff
cuies. William Hutton, the historian, was the son
OF wool-comber. Bunyan, the author of the Pill
grim's Progress, was the of tinker, and himself
followed the profession. ..ee
1t is well known that Burns was peasant, and
followed the plough. Captain Cook the crcumnavig-
ator was at first a cabin boy. Daniel Defoe, the
author of Robinson Crusoe, was the son Of butcher
and had to struggle with many misfortunes. James
Ferguson, the astronomer and philosopher, was eihe
son OF a poor aborer, and a shepherd George
Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends or Qua
kers, was the of weaver. Clifford, the distn-
guihed editor of the Quarterly Review, was at one
time SO poor that he could not buy paper and would
work algebracal questions with blunted awl frag-
ments of leather.
John Harrison, who received of parliament 100000
for his time-keepert to determine longitude sea,