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Excerpt from Practical Life, or Ways and Means for Developing Character and Resources: The Individual Considered in Regard to Domestic Life, Common Sense, Physical Culture, Education, Social Relations, Trades, Clubs, Business, Books, Dress, Love, Manners, Flirtations, Divorce, Marriage, Information, Limitations and Religion
Commercial integrity - Business orthodoxy - Ignorance of business - Dishonesty - Duty of preachers - Two practical tests - Selecting partners in business - Spec ulation - What it is - Its limits - Its dangers - Its crimes - South Sea Bubble Enterprise w. Speculation - American proneness to speculation - French thrift Its virtues - Its dangers - Absorption in little things - Misers and business men Why are we a nation of speculators - Defects in American education - The culti vation of ambition - Our national character - School pabulum - False views Emotional education - Duty w. Love - Lack of self-control - Cultivation of judg meat - Somebody and nobody - Models set - Parents' ambitions - To counteract false ideas - The shalt nots of amusements - Rolicking fun - Gambling Losses of - False names - Idleness - Evil habits - Carrying arms - Rudeness Temptations - Cost of a young man or woman - Example in dollars and cents - Value of a character - Of eighteen years - Of a soul.
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Excerpt from Practical Life, or Ways and Means for Developing Character and Resources: The Individual Considered in Regard to Domestic Life, Common Sense, Physical Culture, Education, Social Relations, Trades, Clubs, Business, Books, Dress, Love, Manners, Flirtations, Divorce, Marriage, Information, Limitations and Religion
Commercial integrity - Business orthodoxy - Ignorance of business - Dishonesty - Duty of preachers - Two practical tests - Selecting partners in business - Spec ulation - What it is - Its limits - Its dangers - Its crimes - South Sea Bubble Enterprise w. Speculation - American proneness to speculation - French thrift Its virtues - Its dangers - Absorption in little things - Misers and business men Why are we a nation of speculators - Defects in American education - The culti vation of ambition - Our national character - School pabulum - False views Emotional education - Duty w. Love - Lack of self-control - Cultivation of judg meat - Somebody and nobody - Models set - Parents' ambitions - To counteract false ideas - The shalt nots of amusements - Rolicking fun - Gambling Losses of - False names - Idleness - Evil habits - Carrying arms - Rudeness Temptations - Cost of a young man or woman - Example in dollars and cents - Value of a character - Of eighteen years - Of a soul.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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