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I believe the author was Elizabeth Susannah Graham, of The Hall Clapham Common. impending publication is referenced in family archives, as is the pseudonym. 1838 would be a much later edition and ES Simonds may be another pseudonym .
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Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order, by Theresa Tidy Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds No preview available - 2016 |
Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order, by Theresa Tidy Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds No preview available - 2016 |
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allow already appearance arrangement attention Author avoid beginning borrowed bound called carry cause chairs cloth comfort common constant corner daily demand destination dinner door draw dress duties EARLY Edition EIGHTEEN MAXIMS elegance employed exclusively exercise fashion finish fire floor give gloves habit half hand head Hearth HOLY horse hour human implement instance INTRODUCTION keep Lady learned leave letters LINE Literary Gazette look loss lost luxuries mass MAXIMS OF NEATNESS means ment Mind Miss morning nail NEATNESS AND ORDER necessary never particularly perform perhaps person piano-forte pocket portfolio Price proper reader reading receiving Religious Instruction remain Remember require round saved Selected Series servant shoe sister sitting sofa sometimes spare station studies taken THERESA TIDY things thought throw trust turn Vide Volume wait young Lady
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Page 3 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 27 - ... life's highest prize her latest hour ; That hour, so late, is nimble in approach, That, like a post, comes on in full career : How swift the shuttle flies, that weaves thy shroud ! Where is the fable of thy former years ? Thrown down the gulf of time > as far from thee As they had ne'er been thine ; the day in hand, Like a bird struggling to get loose, is going...
Page 42 - Take care of small things, and great things will take care of themselves.
Page 29 - Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer than the duties of the day will allow; and recollect that there is often more true diligence in leaving off than in beginning. Refrain, too, from taking up a book, or even a newspaper, merely because it happens to lie before you, though unattended by any circumstance to render it interesting, as it induces a desultory mode of reading, and enervates the mind.
Page 20 - Acquire a habit of folding or rolling up. Many a fine print or drawing has been ruined, many a cloak crumpled, and many a shawl trailed on the floor, for want of this timely neatness...
Page 18 - ... no time is so completely lost as in hunting for lost things ; but that is so much saved, which has been employed in providing a place for every article, and by that means enabled you to find it readily even in the dark. The necessity of a neat arrangement of letters, papers, and accounts, to...
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| Title | Eighteen maxims of neatness and order, by Theresa Tidy |
| Author | Elizabeth Susannah Simmonds |
| Edition | 23 |
| Published | 1838 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2006 |
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