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Excerpt from Lawson's Tyneside Celebrities: Sketches of the Lives and Labours of Famous Men of the North
The designation we have ascribed to these persons is a high, but not an improper one. A celebrity is one who has risen above his fellows in position, who has exerted a more than ordinary in?uence on Society, and who, because of his superior powers, is regarded as an exception, and is thus exceptionally named. That the subjects of the following sketches were such, will clearly appear when it is discovered that they could claim not mere scholarship, but mastership; not only a knowledge of the law, but an authority in the law; not skill alone, but the fathership of the art; not an acquaintance with contrivance, merely, but the invention of the system; in short, the pre-eminently highest place in their profession and calling. Moreover, when their circumstances are contrasted with their achievements, greater merit attaches to them. They felt the pressure of limited means. Their hard manual labour was followed by earnest mental toil. Every niche higher in the temple of fame, was secured after strenuous exertion. The golden links of their glorious career were mostly brightened by the polishing of industry. The more, indeed, their characters are analysed, the more their worth is perceptible. They not only won, but main tained exalted positions amongst the ripest scholars, the greatest engineers, and the most gifted men of their day. They stood abreast of such as Fox, Pitt, Burke, Thurlow, Richmond, and their talented contemporaries, who formed as brilliant a galaxy of Lords and Commons as ever entered the British Houses of Parliament. They vied with men of such world-wide repute as Brunel, Carey, Reynolds, and4 tyneside celebrities.
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