The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-05-26
OF LOVELY BIRTH.
" hat W orking-Men Have Done for Sci.
ence, Art and Literature.

ence, Art anu Literature.
Some may say: Why glve working
people time to think What good use
can they make Of it?" Let US see
what they haze done. Take general
literature. Look al Daniel Defoe, the
author of Robinson Crusoe." one Of
the greatest writers of prose fiction
that ever lived. H began life As a
hosier, and was almost wholly self
taught. William Cobbett the great
master of raey Saxon English. was in
early life a farmers boy. and after.
wards a common soldier. Izaak Wal.
ton, the pleasing biographer and
complete angler" was a linen.
draper.
Then in science: Thomas Simpson,
the distin guished mathematician.
wrought. for the greater part of his
life, as a weaver. Captain Cook, one
of the most scientific OF English sail.
ors, and a very pleasing writer. was
wholly self-taught His father. poor
peasant, learned to read when he was
turned of seventy, in order that he
might be able to peruse his sons voy.
ages. Arkwrigh, subsequently Sir
Richard, the inventor of the cotton
spinning machine, was a poor man.
and commenced life as barber.
james Brindley. the author Of canal
navigation in England. the first who
tunneled great hills, and brought
ships across navigable rivers On
bridges, was a millwright. H~erschell,
su bs q~uently Sir William, originally a
musician in a Hanoyeriau regiment.
became a skillful optician and a great
astronomer. TO him Campbell refers
in the WELL known lines: .s,f.
Gave to the Tyre OF Heaven another string.
Then for the fine arts: Chanlrcy
was a milk and butter boy. and his
first mouldings were in softer material
;han marble. Sir Thomas Lawrence
yas the son of an inn-keeper, and
.holly self-taught. John Opie was
found by DR.. Walcot'. working in a
saw-rit. William HoLarth. the great.
asst master of character that ever de-
seloped his ideas by means Of the PEN
ell. served his apprenticeship to an
engraving si!vcr>mith. and COM
menccd his professional career by en-
craving coats-of-ar and shop-bills.
Then in poetry: Clifford, the first
editor Of the Quarterly, began life as a
poor sailor boy, and afterward served
an apprenticeship to n shoemaker.
Bloomfield wro:e his best poem, the
Farmers Boy" while he. too,
worked in a garrett as a shoemaker.
ben Jonson." says Fuller, in his
English Worthless worked for
some lime as n bricklayer and mason.
He helped to build the new structure
Of LiUcoIn'S Inn. when. having u
trowvl in his hand. he had n book in
his pocket" Shakes peare was a
poor mans son. His father could not
write his name. and his eros or mark
still exists IN the record of Straiford-
on.Avon to attest the fact. The poets
W education seems to have been
very limited, and tradition describes
him as having lived for q time by
very humble employmcnts.
Then turn we to theology. the high
est range Of all. The two Miller'.
Doctor .aac, Dean of Carlisle. and
his brother Joseph, author of he well.
known Hist, r. Of the Churc'l.' be-
ran life rs wcavcrs. D.. prideauX,
author of the 'Conncction.' and
Bishop of Worcester. got his oduca-
ton by entering Oxford MS n Kitchen
boy. john Bunyan, the greatest mas.
ter of Allegorv and author Of The Sc
ond best book in all the world, was a
self-taught tinker.-N. T. Ledg2r.