THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED IN DAILY LIFE. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ LONDON: PRINTED BY ROBSON, LEVEY, AND FRANKLYN, Great New Street and Fetter Lane. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED In Daily Life. WITH PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AND RECOLLECTIONS. By JOHN TIMBS, F.S.A., AUTHOR OF THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN, CURIOSITIES OF LONDON, ETC. [Illustration: Sundial with children around base] LONDON: W. KENT AND CO., PATERNOSTER-ROW. MDCCCLXIII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO THE READER. -------------- TIME and Human Life are the staple subjects of the following pages. These are great matters for so small a book, and may remind you of the philosophical scheme of compressing the world into a nutshell. Now, although we have as yet no means of determining exactly what relation this latter idea has to truth,—it is certain that the rapid multiplication of books incessantly presses upon us, that “condensation is the result of time and experience, which reject what is no longer essential.” Such is the treatment adopted in the present volume, in which, by _focusing_ great truths from the Living and the Dead, is sought to be exemplified the moral couplet: Honour and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part—there all the honour lies. As a companion volume to _Things not Generally Known_, it is hoped that _Things to be Remembered_ may be as popularly received as its predecessor. To render the present work more directly of practical application, the sketches of character which it contains have been drawn in great measure from our own time, so as to give the book a current interest. Meanwhile, historic gossip has not been eschewed; but its piquancy has been sparingly used. The present is, in many respects, a more reflective volume than its predecessor: for it is scarcely possible to illustrate the Ages of Man without Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. This is one of the byways of the book: its highway lies through the crowded city, and upon “the full tide of human affairs;” and the Experiences here set down are, in common parlance, _original_, and have been chiefly garnered throughout a long life, in which truthful observation has been the cardinal aim.