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                       FOOTPRINTS OF FAMOUS MEN.

                              DESIGNED AS
                 INCITEMENTS TO INTELLECTUAL INDUSTRY.


                           By JOHN G. EDGAR,
                 AUTHOR OF “THE BOYHOOD OF GREAT MEN.”


               The heights by great men reached and kept,
                 Were not attained by sudden flight,
               But they, while their companions slept,
                 Were toiling upward in the night.

                                                  LONGFELLOW.


                          With Illustrations.


                               NEW YORK:
                    HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
                                 1854.




“Magna eti