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Character and Conduct
Reading for December 31 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"New Year's Eve"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n381/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_365
Author featured today:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson
Image:
Albumen cabinet card of Alfred Tennyson by Elliott & Fry
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elliott_%26_Fry_-_Alfred,_Lord_Tennyson_(cropped).jpg
Reading for December 30 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"A Prayer"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n381/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_364
Author featured today:
Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
Book featured today:
"Prayers Written at Vailima" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/616/616-h/616-h.htm
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Prayers%20Written%20at%20Vailima
Image:
1893 photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry Walter Barnett (1862–1934)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Henry_Walter_Barnett_bw.jpg
Readings for December 29 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"The Love and Grace and Tenderness of Life"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n379/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_363
Authors featured today:
John Richard Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Richard_Green
George Borrow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Borrow
Image:
Portrait of George Borrow by Henry Wyndham Phillips (1820–1868)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Borrow_by_Henry_Wyndham_Phillips.jpg
Readings for December 28 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Old Age"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n379/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_362
Authors featured today:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe
Mathilde Blind https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_Blind
Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel
Book featured today:
"Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm
Image:
Mathilde Blind by Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mathilde_Blind.jpg
Readings for December 27 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Growing Old"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n377/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_361
Author featured today:
Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel
Book featured today:
"Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm
Image:
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://thisiscommonsense.org/2020/06/05/51012/
Reading for December 26 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Mile-marks"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n377/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_360
Author featured today:
Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
Book featured today:
"Across the plains : with other memories and essays"
https://archive.org/stream/with00stevacrossplainsrich
http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/across-the-plains-with-other-memories-and-essays-1892/
Image:
1893 photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson by Henry Walter Barnett (1862–1934)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Louis_Stevenson_by_Henry_Walter_Barnett_bw.jpg
Readings for December 25 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Christmas Day"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n375/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_359
Authors featured today:
Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
Samuel Taylor Coleridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge
Image:
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) by Peter Vandyke (1729–1799)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SamuelTaylorColeridge.jpg
Readings for December 24 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Christmas Eve"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n375/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_358
Author featured today:
Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley
Image:
Photograph of Charles Kingsley by Charles Watkins
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Kingsley._Photograph_by_Charles_Watkins._Wellcome_V0026646.jpg
Readings for December 23 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Hospitality"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n373/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_357
Authors featured today:
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Hamilton W. Mabie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Wright_Mabie
Image:
Hamilton Wright Mabie (1845-1916), American essayist, editor, critic, lecturer
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Hamilton-Wright-Mabie-N-1845/881155260?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=17374
Readings for December 22 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Hospitality"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n373/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_356
Authors featured today:
W. C. Gannett https://rrlc.org/winningthevote/biographies/william-c-gannett/
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Image:
William C. Gannett
https://rrlc.org/winningthevote/biographies/william-c-gannett/
Readings for December 21 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Courage to be Poor"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n371/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_355
Authors featured today:
Dinah Maria Muloch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Craik
Alice Carey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Cary
George MacDonald https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_MacDonald
Image:
Dinah Maria Craik (née Mulock) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dinah_Maria_Craik_(n%C3%A9e_Mulock)_by_Sir_Hubert_von_Herkomer.jpg
Readings for December 20 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Money"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n371/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_354
Authors featured today:
Francis Bacon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Possibly Thomas Adams https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Adams_(priest)
George Herbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
Image:
George Herbert (1593–1633)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Herbert.jpg
Readings for December 19 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Expenditure"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n369/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_353
Author featured today:
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
Book featured today:
"Christian Social Union Addresses" by Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott
Image:
Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, circa 1890
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooke_Foss_Westcott_NPG.jpg
Readings for December 18 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"The Limit of Luxury"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n369/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_352
Authors featured today:
Canon Samuel Barnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(reformer)
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
St. Francis de Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales
Book featured today:
"The Service of God" by Canon Samuel Barnett
Image:
Canon Samuel Barnett
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Augustus_Barnett_by_George_Frederic_Watts.jpg
Reading for December 17 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Wealth"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n367/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_351
Author featured today:
Bishop Henry C. Potter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_C._Potter
Book featured today:
"The Citizen in His Relation to the Industrial Situation" by Bishop Henry C. Potter
https://archive.org/details/citizeninhisrela00pott
Image:
Henry Codman Potter (1836-1908), Bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Codman_Potter_-_Bischof.jpg
Readings for December 16 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Example"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_
Authors featured today:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n367/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_349
Authors featured today:
Edmund Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
Joseph Joubert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Joubert
Image:
Edmund Burke
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdmundBurke1771.jpg
Readings for December 15 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Rebuking"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n365/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_349
Authors featured today:
Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham
St. Francis de Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales
Book featured today:
"Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham
https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog
https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft
Image:
Saint Francis de Sales
https://catholicism.org/saint-francis-de-sales-1622.html
Reading for December 14 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Punishment"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n365/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_348
Author featured today:
John MacCunn https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79040053/
Book featured today:
"The Making of Character" by John MacCunn
https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/172/mode/2up?q=simply+to+know
Image:
From "Faithful unto Death" by Sir Edward John Poynter, 1865, based on this event described in Edward Bulwer-Lytton's "The Last Days of Pompeii" https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261905/page/n455/mode/2up?q=the+roman+sentry
"The air was now still for a few minutes: the lamp from the gate streamed out far and clear: the fugitives hurried on—they gained the gate—they passed by the Roman sentry; the lightning flashed over his livid face and polished helmet, but his stern features were composed even in their awe! He remained erect and motionless at his post. That hour itself had not animated the machine of the ruthless majesty of Rome into the reasoning and self-acting man. There he stood, amidst the crashing elements: he had not received the permission to desert his station and escape."
Readings for December 13 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Moral Education"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n363/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_347
Authors featured today:
Helen Bosanquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bosanquet
Julius Charles Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Hare_(theologian)
Augustus Hare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Hare
Kate Douglas Wiggin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Douglas_Wiggin
Books featured today:
"The Standard of Life" by Helen Bosanquet
https://archive.org/search.php?query=the%20standard%20of%20life
"Guesses at Truth" edited by Julius Charles Hare and Augustus Hare
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Guesses%20at%20Truth
"Children's Rights" by Kate Douglas Wiggin
https://archive.org/search.php?query=Children%27s%20Rights&and[]=creator%3A%22kate+douglas+smith+wiggin%22
Image:
Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JuliusHare.jpg
Readings for December 12 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Moral Education"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n363/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_346
Author featured today:
Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel
Book featured today:
"Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm
Image:
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://image.bz-berlin.de/data/uploads/2017/08/4274377_1502229121-1920x1080.jpg
Reading for December 11 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Moral Education"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n361/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_345
Author featured today:
Herbert Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer
Book featured today:
"Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physical" by Herbert Spencer
https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/spencer-on-education
https://archive.org/details/spencereducation00spen/page/212/mode/2up?q=self
Image:
Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 - 8 December 1903), English philosopher
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Spencer.jpg
Readings for December 10 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"A Happy Childhood"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n361/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_344
Authors featured today:
Mary Cholmondeley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cholmondeley
Dr. John Brown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(physician,_born_1810)
Book featured today:
"Rab and His Friends and Other Papers" by John Brown
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45929/45929-h/45929-h.htm
Image:
John Brown FRSE FRCPE (22 September 1810 – 11 May 1882), Scottish physician and essayist
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Brown_b1810b.jpg
Readings for December 9 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"The Object of Education"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n359/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_343
Authors featured today:
John Ruskin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Book featured today:
"The Crown of Wild Olive" by John Ruskin
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26716
https://archive.org/search.php?query=The%20Crown%20of%20Wild%20Olive
Image:
John Ruskin, 29 June 1863, albumen silver print by William Downey (1829-1915)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Ruskin_1863.jpg
Reading for December 8 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"The Object of Education"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n359/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_342
Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott
Book featured today:
"Christian Social Union Addresses" by Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott
Image:
Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, circa 1890
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooke_Foss_Westcott_NPG.jpg
Readings for December 7 from "Character And Conduct: A Book Of Helpful Thoughts by Great Writers of Past and Present Ages" selected and arranged for daily reading by Constance M. Whishaw.
"Reading"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n357/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_341
Authors featured today:
John Locke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
Sir Arthur Helps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Helps
Image:
Portrait of John Locke (1632-1704) by Godfrey Kneller (1646–1723)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Locke.jpg
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_by_Sir_Hubert_von_Herkomer.jpg){kind=link}
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