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Captains of Industry Or Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money
James Parton
其他書名
A Book for Young Americans (Classic Reprint)
出版CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2000-11-27
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralSelf-Help / Motivational & Inspirational
ISBN15301694539781530169450
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=G5SjjwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In this book are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised them or by the noble use they made of the leisure which success in them usually gives. Such men are the nobility of republics. The American people were fortunate in having at an early period an ideal man of this kind in Benjamin Franklin, who, at the age of forty-two, just mid-way in his life, deliberately relinquished the most profitable business of its kind in the colonies for the sole purpose of developing electrical science. In this, as in other respects, his example has had great influence with his countrymen.