Capitolo 1
THE BIOGRAPHIES TO WORK MEN
FROM
CONCESSION ALLEN, B.A.
CONTAINED.
ME. THOMAS TELFORD, STONEMASON
II. GEORGE STEPHENSON, MOTOR-MAN
III. JOHN GIBSON, SCULPTOR
IV. WILLIAM HERSCHEL, BANDSMAN
V. GIOVANNA FRANCOIS MILLET, PAINTER
YOU. JAMES GARFIELD, CHANNEL BOY
VII. THOMAS EDWARD, COBBLER
PREFACE.
My recognitions are due to the "Life of the Dr. The Engineers' smiles,"
"The life of the Stephensons", and her "Life of a Scottish Naturalist; " to Mrs.
The "Life of Eastlake of Gibson; " to the "Life of the Mr. Holden of Mr. William
Herschel; " to the "J. F. Mile of M. Seusier, Knows Streets the et Ses OEuvres; " and to
The "Life of the Mr. President's Thayer Garfield; " from that the most greater part of the facts
here it narrated you/he/she has been deduced.
G. A.
ME.
THOMAS TELFORD, STONEMASON.
Tall on among the hills heather-dressed that they form the breadth dividing
you block between England and Scotland, the small river Esk brawls and
you quarrel on his/her stone bed through a wild earth of sterile braesides and
peat and brown musks, forming together some of the more dark and more
surly scenery in the whole expanse of northern Britain. Almost the
whole mass of the counties of Dumfries, Kirkcudbright and Ayr it is
composed of wolds of so solemn desolate highland only, with only some
lost farms or solitary cottage sprinkled above to wide distances them
surface of naked bleak, and with as soon as some signal of the life in some rescue of part
the small villages that gather here him and there to long intervals
around of the Scottish and austere and simple church. He/she anchors the game people that
you live this wild country of heath and cold you/he/she can be considered well
you classify among the best subject before society in the whole one of Britain; for
houses give of farmer of these Scottish and southern Highlands you/he/she has come
before, among an innkeeper of natives as soon as less separate, three men,
at least that it deserves to happen in the very anterior line of
British thinkers or workers--Thomas Telford, Robert Burns and Thomas