Things to be Remembered in Daily Life / With Personal Experiences and Recollections
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THINGS
TO BE REMEMBERED
IN DAILY LIFE.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN,
Great New Street and Fetter Lane.
Time and Human Life are the staple subjects of the following pages. These are great matters for so small a book, and may remind you of the philosophical scheme of compressing the world into a nutshell. Now, although we have as yet no means of determining exactly what relation this latter idea has to truth,—it is certain that the rapid multiplication of books incessantly presses upon us, that “condensation is the result of time and experience, which reject what is no longer essential.” Such is the treatment adopted in the present volume, in which, by focusing great truths from the Living and the Dead, is sought to be exemplified the moral couplet:
Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part—there all the honour lies.
As a companion volume to Things not Generally Known , it is hoped that Things to be Remembered may be as popularly received as its predecessor. To render the present work more directly of practical application, the sketches of character which it contains have been drawn in great measure from our own time, so as to give the book a current interest. Meanwhile, historic gossip has not been eschewed; but its piquancy has been sparingly used.
The present is, in many respects, a more reflective volume than its predecessor: for it is scarcely possible to illustrate the Ages of Man without
John Timbs
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TO THE READER.
ERRATUM.
CONTENTS.
Time.
Life, and Length of Days.
The School of Life.
Business-Life.
Home Traits.
The Spirit of the Age.
World-Knowledge.
Conclusion.
THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED.
Time.
TIME: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE.
MEASUREMENT OF TIME.
PERIODS OF REST.
RECKONING DISTANCE BY TIME.
SUN-DIALS.
THE HOUR-GLASS.
CLOCKS AND WATCHES.
EARLY RISING.
THE ART OF EMPLOYING TIME.
TIME AND ETERNITY.
Life, and Length of Days.
LIFE—A RIVER.
THE SPRING-TIME OF LIFE.
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF LIFE.
PASSING GENERATIONS.
AVERAGE DURATION OF LIFE.
PASTIMES OF CHILDHOOD RECREATIVE TO MAN.
PLEASURES OF THE IMAGINATION LATE IN LIFE.
WHAT IS MEMORY?
CONSOLATION IN GROWING OLD.
LENGTH OF DAYS.
HISTORIC TRADITIONS THROUGH FEW LINKS.
LONGEVITY IN FAMILIES.
FEMALE LONGEVITY.
LONGEVITY AND DIET.
LONGEVITY AND LOCALITIES.
LONGEVITY OF CLASSES.
Great Ages
THE HAPPY OLD MAN.
PREPARATORY TO DEATH.
DEATH BEFORE ADAM.
FUTURE EARTHLY EXISTENCE OF THE HUMAN RACE.
The School of Life.
WHAT IS EDUCATION?
TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN.
EDUCATION AT HOME.
TENDERNESS OF YOUTH.
BUSINESS OF EDUCATION.
THE CLASSICS.
LIBERAL EDUCATION.
DR. ARNOLD’S SCHOOL REFORM.
SCHOOL INDULGENCE.
UNSOUND TEACHING.
SELF-FORMATION.
PRACTICAL DISCIPLINE.
“CRAMMING.”
MATHEMATICS.
ARISTOTLE.
GEOLOGY IN EDUCATION.
THE BEST EDUCATION.
ADVICE TO THE STUDENT.
KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM.
EDUCATION ALARMISTS.
YORKSHIRE SCHOOLS.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG.
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
WHAT IS “ARGUMENT”?
HANDWRITING.
ENGLISH STYLE.
ART OF WRITING.
Business-Life.
WANT OF A PURSUIT.
THE ENGLISH CHARACTER.
WORTH OF ENERGY.
TEST OF GREATNESS.
CHOICE OF A PROFESSION.
OFFICIAL LIFE.
OFFICIAL QUALIFICATIONS.
PUBLIC SPEAKING.
OPPORTUNITY.
MEN OF BUSINESS.
ENGINEERS AND MECHANICIANS.
SCIENTIFIC FARMING.
LARGE FORTUNES.
CIVIC WORTHIES.
WORKING AUTHORS AND ARTISTS.
WEAR AND TEAR OF PUBLIC LIFE.
Home Traits.
LOVE OF HOME.
FAMILY PORTRAITS.
HOW TO KEEP FRIENDS.
SMALL COURTESIES.
LASTING FRIENDSHIPS.
TRUE TONE OF POLITE WRITING.
PRIDE AND MEANNESS.
HOME THOUGHTS.
The Spirit of the Age.
PROGRESS OF KNOWLEDGE.
SPECIAL PROVIDENCE IN SCIENCE.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.
TIME AND IMPROVEMENT.
EVIL INFLUENCES.
WORLDLY MORALITY.
SPEAKING THE TRUTH.
RESTLESSNESS AND ENTERPRISE.
THE PRESENT AND THE PAST.
CIRCUMSTANCES AND GENIUS.
OUR UNIMAGINATIVE AGE.
MARVELS OF THE UNIVERSE.
PHYSIOGNOMY.
TRADE AND PHILANTHROPY.
World-Knowledge.
MISCELLANEA.
PREDICTIONS OF SUCCESS.
Conclusion.
EASE OF MIND.
THE LIFE OF MAN.
THE GOOD MAN’s LIFE.
PREDICTIONS OF FLOWERS.
THE WORLD’S CYCLES.
DEATH ALL-ELOQUENT.
Finis.
APPENDIX.
INDEX.
Transcriber’s Notes
