CharacterAndConduct

Reading for August 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. "Love and Remorse" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n255/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_239 Author featured today: J. R. Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Miller Book featured today: "Personal Friendships of Jesus" https://archive.org/search.php?query=Personal%20Friendships%20of%20Jesus&and[]=subject%3A%22Jesus+Christ%22 Image: Portrait of evangelist J.R. Miller https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillerJR.png

Reading for August 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. "Jealousy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n255/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_238 Author featured today: John Dryden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden Book featured today: "Song Of Jealousy, In Love Triumphant" BY John Dryden https://internetpoem.com/john-dryden/song-of-jealousy-in-love-triumphant-poem/ Image: John Dryden by Sir Godfrey Kneller https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Dryden_by_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller,_Bt.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Jealousy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n253/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_237 Author featured today: May Kendall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Kendall 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 August 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. "Jealousy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n252/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_236 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Jean Baptiste Massillon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Massillon Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Massillon by François-Séraphin Delpech https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_Massillon.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois-S%C3%A9raphin_Delpech

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n251/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_235 Authors featured today: Eustache Deschamps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustache_Deschamps Constance Whishaw provides no attribution for the second reading, but it appears to be by Hugh Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Black_(theologian) James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell Book featured today: "Friendship: Chapter 4 - The Choice of Friendship" by Hugh Black http://articles.ochristian.com/article15439.shtml Image: James Russell Lowell, engraved by J.A.J. Wilcox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:James_Russell_Lowell_-_1855.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n251/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_234 Authors featured today: Samuel Johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson Marcus Tullius Cicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Book featured today: "The Idler - The Decay of Friendship" Number 23, September 23, 1758 https://www.illinoisonlinehighschool.org/uploads/1/8/6/5/18653164/british_essays.pdf "The Idler" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1758%E2%80%9360) Image: Portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson by Joshua Reynolds, commissioned for Henry Thrale's Streatham Park gallery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Johnson_by_Joshua_Reynolds.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Reynolds

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n249/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_233 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Image: François VI, duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), painting by Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_Chass%C3%A9riau

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n249/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_232 Authors featured today: J. R. Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Miller Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Book featured today: "Personal Friendships of Jesus" by J. R. Miller https://archive.org/search.php?query=Personal%20Friendships%20of%20Jesus&and[]=subject%3A%22Jesus+Christ%22 Image: Portrait of evangelist J.R. Miller https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillerJR.png

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n247/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_231 Authors featured today: J. Rendel Harris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rendel_Harris Likely to be Johann Gottfried Herder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Herder Edmund Spenser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser Marcus Aurelius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius Book featured today: "The Life of Francis William Crossley" by J. Rendel Harris, 1852-1941 https://archive.org/details/lifeoffranciswil00harr/page/n9/mode/2up Image: Portrait of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) by Anton Graff https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Gottfried_Herder_2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Graff

Reading for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n247/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_230 Authors featured today: John MacCunn https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22MacCunn%2C+John%2C+1846-1929%22 Book featured today: "The Making of Character" Hamish 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 August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n245/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_229 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Joseph Addison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison Books featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm "Faculties and Difficulties for Belief and Disbelief" by Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/facultiesdifficu00page Image: Portrait of Joseph Addison (1672-1719) between ca. 1703 and ca. 1712 by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Addison_by_Sir_Godfrey_Kneller,_Bt.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n245/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_228 Authors featured today: Marcus Tullius Cicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Euripides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides Image: Euripides, a tragedian of classical Athens https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Euripide.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n243/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_227 Authors featured today: Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Philip Sidney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sidney Likely to be Owen Feltham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Feltham Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Sir Philip Sidney, by an unknown artist https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Philip_Sidney_from_NPG.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n263/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_ Author featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Image: Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1857 by Josiah Johnson Hawes, an albumen print copied in 1880 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 August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n241/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_225 Authors featured today: Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Hillel the Elder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder Jean Paul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul Constance Whishaw provides no attribution for today's second reading, but it is by François de La Rochefoucauld, found in "Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims." It can be found in section 80 here: https://www.thomaswhichello.com/?page_id=831 and at archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/maximsandmoralr01rochgoog/page/n67/mode/2up?q=glxix Similarly, Whishaw provides no attribution for today's fourth reading. It is by Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter), found in "Titan" https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Criticism. Image: Portrait of Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (1763-1825) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RichterJP.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n241/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_224 Authors featured today: J. R. Miller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._R._Miller Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson Book featured today: "Personal Friendships of Jesus" by J. R. Miller https://archive.org/details/personalfriendsh00mill/page/256/mode/2up Image: Portrait of evangelist Dr. J.R. Miller, 1912 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MillerJR.png

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n239/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_223 Authors featured today: Marcus Tullius Cicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero 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 Terence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence Books featured today: "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm "Andria" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andria_(comedy) https://archive.org/details/andriatere00tereuoft/page/n3/mode/2up Image: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_by_Josiah_Johnson_Hawes_1857.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n239/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_222 Authors featured today: Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Very Reverend Sir George Adam Smith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adam_Smith Cyrus the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great Book featured today: "The Life of Henry Drummond" by George Adam Smith https://archive.org/details/cu31924032370367/page/n23/mode/2up?q=genius+for+friendship Image: Rev George Adam Smith in 1895 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rev_George_Adam_Smith_in_1895.png

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n237/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_221 Authors featured today: Marcus Tullius Cicero https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero Hugh Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Black_(theologian) Image: Hugh Black (March 26, 1868 – April 6, 1953). a Scottish-American theologian and author https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HughBlack.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n237/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_220 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Right Reverend Jeremy Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Taylor Cyrus the Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrus_the_Great Image: Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), oil on canvas by Eden Upton Eddis (1812–1901) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jeremytaylor.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n235/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_219 Authors featured today: Charlotte Brontë https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB Thomas Hughes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hughes Hugh Black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Black_(theologian) Image: Charlotte Brontë, chalk, 1850 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c3/Charlotte_Bronte_by_George_Richmond.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n235/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_218 Authors featured today: May Kendall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Kendall 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."

Reading for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n233/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_217 Author featured today: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Image: Phillips Brooks https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_Brooks.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Friendship" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n233/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_216 Authors featured today: Reverend Dr. Hugh Blair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Blair William Makepeace Thackeray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Makepeace_Thackeray Socrates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates Image: Rev Prof Hugh Blair FRSE (7 April 1718 – 27 December 1800), Scottish minister, author, and rhetorician, and considered one of the first great theorists of written discourse https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hugh_Blair_clergyman_001.jpg

Readings for August 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. "Influence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n231/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_215 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Bishop Edward Talbot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Talbot_(bishop) Image: The Right Reverend Edward Talbot, Bishop of Winchester, published in Vanity Fair, 11 October 1911 https://art.famsf.org/sites/default/files/artwork/ray/6103165124690030.jpg