CharacterAndConduct

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

Readings 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