CharacterAndConduct

Readings for December 6 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. "Books" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n357/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_340 Authors featured today: John MacCunn https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79040053/ James Freeman Clarke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Freeman_Clarke Book featured today: "The Making of Character" by John MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/192/mode/2up?q=Labour Image: Engraved portrait of James Freeman Clarke (1810–1888) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Freeman_Clarke.jpg

Reading for December 5 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. "Books" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n355/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_339 Author featured today: George Crabbe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crabbe Book featured today: "The Library" by George Crabbe https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-library-8/ Image: George Crabbe by Henry William Pickersgill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Crabbe

Reading for December 4 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. "Holidays" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n355/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_338 Author featured today: William James Dawson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Dawson Image: William James Dawson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_William_James_Dawson.jpg

Readings for December 3 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. "Nature" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n353/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_337 Authors featured today: John MacCunn https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n79040053/ Joseph Addison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison Book featured today: "The Making of Character" by Hamish MacCunn https://archive.org/details/makingofcharacte00maccuoft/page/172/mode/2up?q=simply+to+know Image: Portrait of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Addison_by_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller,_Bt.jpg

Readings for December 2 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. "Nature" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n353/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_336 Authors featured today: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n353/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_336 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury Image: An 1880 albumen print of Ralph Waldo Emerson copied by J.J. Hawes from an 1857 daguerreotype by J.J. Hawes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_by_Josiah_Johnson_Hawes_1857.jpg

Readings for December 1 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 Gospel of Beauty" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n351/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_335 Author featured today: Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) Book featured today: "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog Image: Portrait of Reverend Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832-1916), photographed by Frederick Hollyer https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stopford_Brooke_c1890_Hollyer.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Sense of the Beautiful" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n351/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_334 Authors featured today: William Ellery Channing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Book featured today: "Good News of God Sermons" by Charles Kingsley https://archive.org/search.php?query=Good%20News%20of%20God%20Sermons%20Charles%20Kingsley Image: William Ellery Channing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WilliamElleryChanning.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Beauties of Nature" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n349/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_333 Authors featured today: George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau 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 November 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. "Humour" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n349/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_332 Authors featured today: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray William Shakespeare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Books featured today: The First Epistle of Peter, Chapter 1, Verse 13 https://biblehub.com/1_peter/1-13.htm Proverbs, Chapter 17, Verse 22 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+17&version=NIV Image: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks

Readings for November 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. "Humour" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n347/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_331 Authors featured today: Likely George Merriam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Merriam Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Thorneycroft_Fowler Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallam_Tennyson,_2nd_Baron_Tennyson Book featured today: "Alfred Lord Tennyson A Memoir By His Son" by Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tennyson%20a%20Memoir Image: Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ellen_Thorneycroft_Fowler.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Cheerfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n347/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_330 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Joseph Addison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison Lord Byron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron Image: Portrait of Lord Byron, British poet (1788–1824), by Thomas Phillips (1770–1845) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Byron_1813_by_Phillips.jpg

Reading for November 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. "Grumblers" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n345/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_329 Author featured today: Thomas Walker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Walker_(author) Book featured today: "The Original" by Thomas Walker https://archive.org/details/s2id11856450 Image: FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH Sir E. J. POYNTER, Bart., P.R.A. This picture represents a Roman Guard on duty at one of the palaces during the destruction of Herculanæum, who, although he might perhaps have made his escape prefers to remain at his post, faithful unto death.

Readings for November 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. "Grumbling" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n345/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_328 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson C. Greene Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 November 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. "Grumbling" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n343/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_327 Authors featured today: Lucy Soulsby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Soulsby Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Image: Lucy Soulsby at the Oxford High School for Girls https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1896-Miss-Lucy_Soulsby_(sq_cropped).png

Readings for November 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. "Grumbling" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n343/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_326 Author featured today: Juliana Horatia Ewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_Horatia_Ewing Book featured today: "A Bad Habit" by Juliana Horatia Ewing Image: Juliana Horatia Ewing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Juliana_Horatia_Ewing_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_17085.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Causes of Thankfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n341/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_325 Authors featured today: Lady Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Isabella_Thackeray_Ritchie https://elizabethgaskellhouse.co.uk/discovering-miss-thackeray/ Hannah More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_More William Ellery Channing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing Image: Portrait of Hannah More from 1821 by Henry William Pickersgill https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HannahMore.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Causes of Thankfulness" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n341/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_324 Authors featured today: Bishop Jeremy Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks George Herbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert Image: George Herbert (1593–1633) by Robert White (1645–1703) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Herbert.jpg

Readings for November 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. "The Secret of the Joy of Living" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n339/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_323 Author featured today: Richard Chenevix Trench https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Chenevix_Trench Image: Drawing of Richard Chenevix Trench, December 1, 1863 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_Richard_Chenevix_Trench.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Bearing Trouble" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n339/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_322 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Alice Hegan Rice Book featured today: "Lovey Mary" by Alice Hegan Rice Image: James Russell Lowell, 1855, engraved by J.A.J. Wilcox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Russell_Lowell_-_1855.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Magnifying Troubles" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n337/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_321 Authors featured today: Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain) Robert Southey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Southey Book featured today: "The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog Image: Portrait of Robert Southey (1774-1843), English poet, by Peter Vandyke (1729–1799) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Southey_by_Vandyke.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Discontent" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n337/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_320 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot Edwin Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arnold Book featured today: "The Light of Asia" by Edwin Arnold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Asia Image: 1880 albumen print of Ralph Waldo Emerson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_by_Josiah_Johnson_Hawes_1857.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Contentment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n335/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_319 Authors featured today: Arnold Toynbee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Toynbee_(historian,_born_1852) Seneca the Younger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Image: Arnold Toynbee https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arnold_Toynbee.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Contentment" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n335/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_318 Authors featured today: Possibly Pastor John Maclean http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/maclean_john_15E.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maclean_(pastor) Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Image: Charles Kingsley, photograph by Charles Watkins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Kingsley._Photograph_by_Charles_Watkins._Wellcome_V0026646.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Self-centred People" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n333/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_317 Authors featured today: Frances Frederica Montrésor https://www.bartleby.com/library/readersdigest/1053.html John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalberg-Acton%2C_1st_Baron_Acton Image: Picture of John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Picture_of_John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton.jpg

Readings for November 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. "Discontent" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n333/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_316 Authors featured today: Robert Burton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Burton Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Books featured today: "The Anatomy of Melancholy" by Robert Burton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anatomy_of_Melancholy https://gutenberg.org/files/10800/10800-h/10800-h.htm "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Robert Burton, 1635, by Gilbert Jackson https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robert_Burton_by_Gilbert_Jackson.jpg