. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. OHAKLES FOUKIEK. THK POLITICAL KCUNOMIST, J. STUAKT Hugh Miller, Mesmer, J. Stuart Mill and Fourier. till British geologist, was*born
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. OHAKLES FOUKIEK. THK POLITICAL KCUNOMIST, J. STUAKT Hugh Miller, Mesmer, J. Stuart Mill and Fourier. till British geologist, was*born at Cromarty, Scotland, in lSi)2, andprincipally received iiis earliest educationfrom lii^ mothers brothers, Alexan-der and he attendedlocal irichools, readclassics bystealth, and wasgifted with a re-markable memory and a facnlty of tellingstories which be used to extemporize withgreat success. At an early age he man-ifested a fondness for geological re-searches. Refusing to go to college andprepare for the gospel ministry, he wastaught, instead, the trade of a stone-mason, pursuing at his leisure the studyof books, reading the best literature ofthe day in many departments, and writingverses, rhapsodies and rellections. Allthis time he was also continuing hisgeological researches, and at this periodof his life he made histoid red sand-stone discoveries, which procured hintconsiderable distinction among the scieii-titic men of the day. His attainmentsmadf him a local celebrity at Cromarty,counc
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