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Men Of Mark
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Author : William J. Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Men Of Mark written by William J. Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Social Science categories.
TO PRESUME to multiply books in this day of excellent writers and learned book-makers is a rash thing perhaps for a novice. It may even be a presumption that shall be met by the production itself being driven from the market by the keen, searching criticism of not only the reviewers, but less noted objectors. And yet there are books that meet a ready sale because they seem like "Ishmaelites"--against everybody and everybody against them. Whether this work shall ever accomplish the design of the author may not at all be determined by its sale. While I hope to secure some pecuniary gain that I may accompany it with a companion illustrating what our women have done, yet by no means do I send it forth with the sordid idea of gain. I would rather it would do some good than make a single dollar, and I echo the wish of "Abou Ben Adhem," in that sweet poem of that name, written by Leigh Hunt. The angel was writing at the table, in his vision. The names of those who love the Lord.Abou wanted to know if his was there--and the angel said "No." Said Abou, I pray thee, then, write me as one that loves his fellow-men. That is what I ask to be recorded of me. The angel wrote and vanished. The next night It came again, with a great awakening light. And showed the names whom love of God had blessed. And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest. I desire that the book shall be a help to students, male and female, in the way of information concerning our great names. I have noticed in my long experience as a teacher, that many of my students were wofully ignorant of the work of our great colored men--even ignorant of their names. If they knew their names, it was some indefinable something they had done--just what, they could not tell. If in a slight degree I shall here furnish the data for that class of rising men and women, I shall feel much pleased. Herein will be found many who had severe trials in making their way through schools of different grades. It is a suitable book, it is hoped, to be put into the hands of intelligent, aspiring young people everywhere, that they might see the means and manners of men's elevation, and by this be led to undertake the task of going through high schools and colleges. If the persons herein mentioned could rise to the exalted stations which they have and do now hold, what is there to prevent any young man or woman from achieving greatness? Many, yea, nearly all these came from the loins of slave fathers, and were the babes of women in bondage, and themselves felt the leaden hand of slavery on their own bodies; but whether slaves or not, they suffered with their brethren because of color. That "sum of human villainies" did not crush out the life and manhood of the race. I wish the book to show to the world--to our oppressors and even our friends--that the Negro race is still alive, and must possess more intellectual vigor than any other section of the human family, or else how could they be crushed as slaves in all these years since 1620, and yet to-day stand side by side with the best blood in America, in white institutions, grappling with abstruse problems in Euclid and difficult classics, and master them? Was ever such a thing seen in another people? Whence these lawyers, doctors, authors, editors, divines, lecturers, linguists, scientists, college presidents and such, in one quarter of a century?
Men Of Mark
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Author : William J. Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Men Of Mark written by William J. Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with categories.
Men Of Mark Eminent Progressive And Rising
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Author : William J. Simmons
language : en
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
Release Date : 2013-09
Men Of Mark Eminent Progressive And Rising written by William J. Simmons and has been published by Theclassics.Us this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... XVIII. REV. NICHOLAS FRANKLIN ROBERTS, A.B., A.M. Professor of Mathematics--President of the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina--Moderator of 100,000 Colored Baptists. AMONG the rising young men of the old "Tar Heel State "is the one whose name is at the head of this article. He has reflected honor upon the State that gave him birth; he is a young man who has risen from the drudgery of farm life to the prominence of a professor in a university, and is therefore a representative of his people. There are many older persons, of course, who might be selected, and some may bring the charge of "young men" against some of the characters in this book, but if in early life they have placed themselves at the head of great enterprises, it seems fitting that they should be noticed for the encouragement of others who come behind them. Then the depths from which some people rise, and the heights to which they climb, is worthy of notice. Now is there reason for the farmer boy who reads this sketch to be discouraged because he has hard work, plowing, cutting and hauling wood, caring for the pigs, feeding the cows, and other laborious work? It seems not to me. The advantages of a farm life are many, though there may be rough spots and difficult passages. Indeed, the days of a farmer are well spent in being influenced by nature and thus being led up to nature's God. Boys in the country have their minds measurably kept pure and untainted by the things that destroy the purity of the mind, and many of these "young men" referred to are mentioned as a means of encouragement to those who still are behind in the race of life. He was born near Seaboard, North Hampton county, North Carolina, October 13, 1849. At the age of twelve years he relates that he...
Men Of Mark In Connecticut
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Author : Norris Galpin Osborn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
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Men Of Mark
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Author : William J. Simmons
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Men Of Mark written by William J. Simmons and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with African Americans categories.
Men Of Mark In Virginia
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Author : Lyon Gardiner Tyler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1906
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Men Of Mark
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Author : WILLIAM J. SIMMONS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Men Of Mark written by WILLIAM J. SIMMONS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with categories.
Australian Men Of Mark
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
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Men Of Mark Twixt Tyne And Tweed
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Author : RICHARD WELFORD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Men Of Mark Twixt Tyne And Tweed written by RICHARD WELFORD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.
Men Of Mark In Maryland
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Author : Bernard Christian Steiner
language : en
Publisher: Franklin Classics
Release Date : 2018-10-16
Men Of Mark In Maryland written by Bernard Christian Steiner and has been published by Franklin Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-16 with categories.
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