1887 Plain Living and High Thinking; or, Practical Self-Culture: Moral, Mental, and Physical

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Leather Binding

The fourth edition of this work. This work is an instructional and educational guide to practical self-culture, a self help guide to the moral mental and physical. Some of the issues focussed on include the moral at home relations between a father and son, the independence of character, conduct of youth, reading tastes, the preservation of physical health, and much more. Written by William Henry Davenport Adams. Adams was a nineteenth century journalist, known for his numerous publications of which there were about one-hundred and forty in total. These include 'Famous Regiments', 'Wonders of the Vegetable World', and 'Famous Ships of the British Navy'. In a smart half calf binding. Incomplete, as lacking the frontispiece and seven plates.