Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer.

  • Sizer, Nelson, 1812-1897.
Date:
1890 [1889]
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Credit: Choice of pursuits, or, What to do, and why, describing seventy-five trades and professions, and the talents and temperaments required for each; also, how to educate, on phrenological principles, each man for his proper work : together with portraits and biographies of more than one hundred successful thinkers and workers / by Nelson Sizer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    O0NTENT8, PAQB Teachers and Teaching 143 Hunt, Thomas S., Portrait of 144 Editorship 148 Taylor, Bayard, Portrait of.. 148 Hawley, Gen. Joseph,'Por- trait of 150 Reporting and Reporters 154 Mur- hy, Dennis F.,Portrait of 154 Underhill, Edward F., Por- trait of 156 Reed, Thomas Allen, Por- trait of 160 Physician 164 Taylor, Charles, M.D., Por- trait of 164 Sims, J. Marion, M.D 172 Lozier, Mrs. C. S., M.D 174 Legal Profession 175 Webster, Daniel, Portrait of. 176 Choate, Rufus, Portrait of... 178 Evarts, \Vm. M., “ ... 180 Clerg3'man 181 Cummins, Bishop, Geo. D., Portrait of 182 Kohertson, Rev. F. W., Por- trait of 190 Phrenologist. 194 Gall, Dr. F. J., Founder of Phrenolog}', Portrait of... 194 Engineering 213 Ericsson, John, Portrait of.. 214 Lesseps, Ferdinand De, Por- trait of 216 How TO Educate Each Maii FOR His Proper Work. .. 217 Perversion by Training 217 Physical Training 218 Diversity of Gifts 219 Metaphysics not Practical ... 220 Errors of Education 222 Impediments to Education.. 231 A DIM enti VENE83 — Hunger, Food 245 Animal Instinct 246 Training of Appetite 247 Intemperance 248 Destructiveness aud Com- BATI-VENESS 253 Courage and its Laws 255 Auger, its Training and Rem- edy 257 True Way to Whip 201 <a’PROBATivENES8—Desire to Please 262 Errors in its Training 264 A Sharp Contrast 265 Standard of Ambition 270 Amiable Weakness 272 Insanity of Each Faculty 273 Self-Esteem — Dignity, Self- Respect 274 Mitliu^ Dr. J, K. C., 271 FACE Value of Pride in Character. 273 Training of Self-Esteem 277 Cautiousness—Prudence, Fi-ar 280 Clarke,McDonald, Portrait of 282 Congress of Faculties 283 Excessive Cautiousness .*... 2S5 Diseased Cautiousness 287 Acquisitiveness—Sense of Property 29C The Tricks of Trade 294 Secretiveness—Concealment. 29b Deception, Hypocrisy 300 CoNSTRUCTiVENESs —Mechani- cal Talent 305 Peter, The Great, Portrait of. 306 Edison, Thomas A., Portrait of 308 Roach, John, Portrait of 310 Ideality—Refinement 313. Poe, Edgar A., Portrait of. 314 Tennyson, Alfred, Portrait of 316 Firmness—Stability, Determi- nation 317 Continuity—Patient AppUca tion 325 Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Por- trait of 336 Conscientiousnt:ss—Integrity 331 Foote, Solomon, Portrait of. 334 Veneration — Worship, Re- spect 336 Storrs, Rev. Dr. Richard S., Intellectual Culture 341 Lowell, Jas. Russell, Portrait of 342 Order—System, Method. 345 Locality—Memory of Places. 349 Murchison, Sir Roderick, Portrait of 352 Language—Talking Talent... 355 Burritt, Elihu, Portrait 356 Orton, William, Portrait.... 358 Girls—Their Physical Training 359 Masculine Women 360 Girlhood Restraints 361 Invalid Women 362 Early Habits of Girls 367 Fashion Forbids Exertion... 368 Their Mental Culture 361' Habit a Law of Mind 374 Food for Thinkers and Workers 382 Portraits and Biographies OF Eminent 'Thinkers AND Workers 389 Chase, Salmon P., Portrait of, ns Lawyer, Statesman, 390 and Cliief-Justice 392 Vanderbilt, Conielius, Por- trait of, ns “Railroad 40j