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end—The Sèvres porcelain manufactory—Josiah Wedgwood, the English potter—Early state of English earthenware manufacture—Wedgwood's indefatigable industry, skill, and perseverance—His success—The Barberini vase—Wedgwood a national benefactor—Industrial heroes

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Great results attained by simple means—Fortune favours the industrious—"Genius is patience"—Newton and Kepler—Industry of eminent men—Power acquired by repeated effort—Anecdote of Sir Robert Peel's cultivation of memory—Facility comes by practice—Importance of patience—Cheerfulness—Sydney Smith—Dr. Hook—Hope an important element in character—Carey the missionary—Anecdote of Dr. Young—Anecdote of Audubon the ornithologist—Anecdote of Mr. Carlyle and his MS. of the 'French Revolution'—Perseverance of Watt and Stephenson—Perseverance displayed in the discovery of the Nineveh marbles by Rawlinson and Layard—Comte de Buffon as student His continuous and unremitting labours—Sir Walter Scott's perseverance—John Britton—Loudon—Samuel Drew—Joseph Hume

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No great result achieved by accident—Newton's discoveries—Dr. Young—Habit of observing with intelligence—Galileo—Inventions of Brown, Watt, and Brunel accidentally suggested—Philosophy in little things—Apollonius Pergæus and conic sections—Franklin and Galvani—Discovery of steam power-Opportunities seized or made—Simple and rude tools of great workers—Lee and Stone's opportunities for learning—Sir Walter Scott's—Dr. Priestley—Sir Humphry Davy—Faraday—Davy and