Things to be Remembered in Daily Life / With Personal Experiences and Recollections

Chapter 123: Transcriber’s Notes

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About This Book

A collection of concise essays and aphorisms offering practical reflections on time, stages of life, education, business conduct, household relations, and the spirit of the age. It blends historical anecdotes and contemporary sketches of character with moral maxims to counsel on using time wisely, cultivating habits, preparing for old age, choosing pursuits, and maintaining civic and domestic virtues. Chapters treat the measurement and personification of time, longevity, schooling and self-formation, professional duty, social courtesies, and scientific and moral progress, and conclude with miscellaneous observations aimed at ease of mind. The tone is reflective and didactic, focused on practical application rather than abstract theory.

Transcriber’s Notes

1. Copyright notice was provided as in the original printed text—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication.

2. Obvious typographical errors were silently corrected; non-standard spellings and dialect were retained.

3. On page 23, an “i” was changed to an “I” where the meaning was first person singular, nominative case.

4. Typo on page 23: “Habden” was changed to “Hebden”.

5. A section header was added for any section listed in the Table of Contents which didn’t show in the text (other than as a page header).

6. In the first pararaph on page 98 there is an arithmetical error which has been left uncorrected.

7. On p. 126, the first paragraph of quotation, “non-professional educational” was changed to “non-professional education” to be parallel to previous sentence.

8. On p. 173, both of the spellings, “preses” and “præses”, were used. Neither is considered wrong. (It means President of a college.)