- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Mirabeau
Mirabeau, the brilliant but unprincipled orator - Mans Head
Mans Head - Pestalozzi
The enthusiastic philanthropist and educational reformer, Pestalozzi - Joseph Choate
Joseph Hodges Choate - Filling Up
Man filling up his glass - Ever present monitor
Man with Monocle - Chatting in the Garden
Two men sitting in the garden chatting - Can I Sir?
Young man listening to an authority figure explaining why he is not getting something. - Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar (From the Bust in the British Museum.) - Old lady with beard
Old lady with beard - Tufted Beard
Tufted Beard - Top hat with beard
Top hat with beard - Shrugging man
Shrugging man - Shrugging man with beard
Shrugging man with beard - Santa type beard
Santa type beard - Really long beard
Really long beard - Poirot perhaps
Poirot perhaps - Pastor with beard
Pastor with beard - Oriental with Beard
Oriental with Beard - Long Beard
Long Beard - I am the Walrus
Man with a walrus mustache - Goatee Beard
Goatee Beard - Full beard - full hair
Full beard - full hair - Farmer with beard
Farmer with beard - Chinaman with beard
Chinaman with beard - Captain with Beard
Captain with Beard - Bowrtie man with beard
Bowrtie man with beard - Bowler with beard
Bowler with beard - Biker with beard
Biker with beard - Beastly Beard
Beastly Beard - Bearded man waiting for dinner
Bearded man waiting for dinner - Van Dyke Beard
Van Dyke Beard - Unhappy man with beard
Unhappy man with beard - Benjamin Franklin
American independence, the beginnings of which we have just been considering, was accomplished after a long struggle. Many brave men fought on the battle-field, and many who never shouldered a musket or drew a sword exerted a powerful influence for the good of the patriot cause. One of these men was Benjamin Franklin. He was born in Boston in 1706, the fifteenth child in a family of seventeen children. His father was a candle-maker and soap-boiler. Intending to make a clergyman of Benjamin, he sent him, at eight years of age, to a grammar-school, with the purpose of fitting him for college. The boy made rapid progress, but before the end of his first school-year his father took him out on account of the expense, and put him into a school where he would learn more practical subjects, such as writing and arithmetic. The last study proved very difficult for him. - Christopher Columbus
Columbus was a man of commanding presence. He was large, tall, and dignified in bearing, with a ruddy complexion and piercing blue-gray eyes. By the time he was thirty his hair had become white, and fell in[Pg 4] wavy locks about his shoulders. Although his life of hardship and poverty compelled him to be plain and simple in food and dress, he always had the air of a gentleman, and his manners were pleasing and courteous. But he had a strong will, which overcame difficulties that would have overwhelmed most men. - Josiah Wedgewood
Josiah Wedgewood More than once it has happened that the youngest of thirteen children has turned out a genius. It was so in the case of Sir Richard Arkwright, and it turned out to be so in the case of Josiah Wedgwood, the youngest of the thirteen children of Thomas Wedgwood, a Burslem potter, and of Mary Stringer, a kind-hearted but delicate, sensitive woman, the daughter of a nonconformist clergyman. The town of Burslem, in Staffordshire, where Wedgwood saw the light in 1730, was then anything but an attractive place. Drinking and cock-fighting were the common recreations; roads had scarcely any existence; the thatched hovels had dunghills before the doors, while the hollows from which the potter's clay was excavated were filled with stagnant water, and the atmosphere of the whole place was coarse and unwholesome, and a most unlikely nursery of genius. - Lord Armstrong
Armstrong, during the Crimean War, made an explosive apparatus for blowing up ships sunk at Sebastopol. This led him to turn his attention to improvements in ordnance. He invented a kind of breech-loading cannon, and soon had an order for several field-pieces after the same pattern. He began with guns throwing 6 lb. and 18 lb. shot and shells, and afterwards 32 lb. shells; and the results at the time were deemed almost incredible. He had both reduced the weight of the gun by one-half, reduced the charge of powder, and his gun sent the shell about three times farther. His success led to his offering to government all his past inventions, and any that he might in the future discover. A post was created for him, that of Chief Engineer of Rifled Ordnance for seven years provisionally. - Prince Albert as a young man
Prince Albert at the age of 20 From a miniature by Sir W Ross - Prince Albert as a child
Prince Albert at the age of four - Woman in hat
Woman in hat - Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus - Napoleon
- Dr Arnold
- Charles Sprague
- Charles Robert Leslie
- Bettina von Arnim
- Barry Cornwall
- Anna Jameson
- Alfred Tennyson
- Alexander Smith
- Thomas de Quincy
- Sir Walter Scott
- Robert Browning
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Nathaniel Hawthorn
- Matthew Arnold
- Mary Russell Mitford
- Leigh Hunt