How to Do It.
Title:
How to Do It.
Author:
Hale, Edward Everett.
ISBN:
9781775566557
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Contents:
Title -- Contents -- Chapter I Introductory How We Met -- Chapter II How to Talk -- Chapter III Talk -- Chapter IV How to Write -- Chapter V How to Read -- Chapter VI How to Read II -- Chapter VII How to Go into Society -- Chapter VIII How to Travel -- Chapter IX Life at School -- Chapter X Life in Vacation -- Chapter XI Life Alone -- Chapter XII Habits in Church -- Chapter XIII Life with Children -- Chapter XIV Life with Your Elders -- Chapter XV Habits of Reading -- Chapter XVI Getting Ready -- Endnotes.
Abstract:
Nothing comes amiss in the great business of preparation, if it has been thoroughly well learned. And the strangest things come of use, too, at the strangest times. A sailor teaches you to tie a knot when you are on a fishing party, and you tie that knot the next time when you are patching up the Emperor of Russia's carriage for him, in a valley in the Ural Mountains. But "getting ready" does not mean the piling in of a heap of accidental accomplishments...
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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