. 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. ong brain-power, cou])ledwith ambition to achieve, perceptivepower to foresee, and judgment to opportunity offering, the individua
. 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. ong brain-power, cou])ledwith ambition to achieve, perceptivepower to foresee, and judgment to opportunity offering, the individualgoes forwanl to success and power. Of all the circumstances, therefore,which may be presented, there are none so desirable to the childas the possession, at birth, of a brain-power capable of graspingthe opportunities as they occur in after-life. Sucli was the gift whichGeorge Washingtons mother presented toher child. A strong woman, of clear intellect and high moralcharacter, she endowed him witli the caimcity for a prosperous lifein any event, and for a great career, if opportunity ollert^d for himto enter upon it. The war of the Hevoliition occurred in his time,and, with a genius equal to the occasion, lie made his |ilace in thehi:arts of the peojile. On February 32, (Jeorge Washington was born at liridgesCreek, in Weslmorelund ctninty, Va. His father afterwards livedon the Kuppahanuock. a short distance from FrcderickshurL. ivlnrc lu-. WASHINGTON. DUUnC^)! < died in 1743. K-aviny; a widow and five children, comfortably providedfor with u large landed property, of which, by will. George inheritedthe homestead, while the oldes^t brother, Lawrence Washington,received the estate on the Potomac. George, who at his fathers death was not ten years of age,obtained, at an ordinary school, a knowledge of reading, writing andarithmetic. At fourteen he commenced the study of geometry andsurveying, in which he made such progress as to cause him to enterupon the profession of
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