MEN WHO WERE GREAT WHILE YOUNG.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1787, 8 September 1888, Page 4

MEN WHO WERE GREAT WHILE YOUNG.

Cromwell left the University at eighteen. Charles Eox was in Parliament at nineteen.

John Bright never was at school after fifteen.

Henry Olay was in the Senate of the United States at twenty-nine.

Gladstone was in Parliament at twenty-two, and at twenty-four was Lord of the Treasury. Lord Bacon graduated at Cambridge when sixteen, and was called to the bar at 21.

Peel was in Parliament at 21, and Palmerston was Lord of the Admiralty at 28.

Martin Luther had become distinguished at twenty-four, and at 56 had reached his fame.

Gustavus Adolphus ascended the throne at sixteen. Before he was 34 he was ono of the great rulers of Europe. Judge Story was at Harvard at 15, in Congress at 29, and Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States at 32.

Napoleon at 25 commanded the army of Italy. At 30 he was one of the great law givers of the world. At 46 he saw Waterloo. William H. Seward commenced the practice of law at 21, and at 31 was President of a State Convention, and at 37 Governor of New York.

VV ebster was in College at 15, gave earnest of his great future before he was 25, and at 30 was the peer of the ablest man in Congress. Washington was a distinguished Colonel in the army at 22, early in public affairs, commander of the forces ac 43, and President at 57.