CharacterAndConduct

Readings for August 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. "Influence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n231/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_214 Authors featured today: Bishop Brooke Foss Westcott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooke_Foss_Westcott Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Image: Charles Kingsley, photograph by Charles Watkins https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Kingsley._Photograph_by_Charles_Watkins._Wellcome_V0026646.jpg

Readings for August xyz 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. "Quench not the Smoking Flax" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n229/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_213 Authors featured today: Bishop William Temple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Temple_(bishop) Helen Bosanquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bosanquet Book featured today: "The Standard of Life and Other Reprinted Essays" by Helen Bosanquet https://archive.org/details/standardoflifeot00bosauoft/page/40/mode/2up?q=remove+unnecessary+obstacles Image: Photographic portrait of Helen Bosanquet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Helen_Bosanquet.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Quench not the Smoking Flax" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n229/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_213 Authors featured today: Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_de_Clapiers%2C_marquis_de_Vauvenargues Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Book featured today: "Amiel's Journal" https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Portrait of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues by Charles Amedée Colin (1808-1873) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LucdeClapiers-marquisdeVauvenarges.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Influence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n227/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_211 Authors featured today: Nathaniel Hawthorne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne William Ellery Channing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellery_Channing Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks Image: A photographic portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne by the photographer Mathew Brady, circa 1860-1864 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nathaniel_Hawthorne_by_Brady,_1860-64.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Influence" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n227/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_210 Authors featured today: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_MacColl Image: Canon Malcolm MacColl https://www.cornucopia.net/library/issues/48_MacColl_v2.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Manners" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n225/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_209 Authors featured today: Samuel Smiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles A. C. Benson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._C._Benson Book featured today: "The House of Quiet; an Autobiography" by Arthur Christopher Benson https://archive.org/details/housequietanaut01bensgoog/page/n5/mode/2up?q=Our+servants Image: Portrait of Samuel Smiles by George Reid (1841–1913) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Smiles_by_Sir_George_Reid.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Manners" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n225/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_208 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope%2C_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield Samuel Smiles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Smiles Image: Portrait of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773) by Allan Ramsay https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_Dormer_Stanhope,_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield_by_Allan_Ramsay.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Manners" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n223/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_207 Author featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson The fourth reading is unattributed. Image: Ralph Waldo Emerson by Josiah Johnson Hawes, 1857 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ralph_Waldo_Emerson_by_Josiah_Johnson_Hawes_1857.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Manners" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n223/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_206 Authors featured today: Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Coventry Patmore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Patmore Edmund Spenser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Spenser Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Stanhope%2C_4th_Earl_of_Chesterfield Image: Portrait of Coventry Patmore, by John Singer Sargent, 1894 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Coventry_Patmore.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Courtesy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n221/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_205 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Image: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oil painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg

Readings for July 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. "Courtesy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n221/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_204 Authors featured today: Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist) Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr. Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Amiel Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Book featured today: "The Greatest Thing In The World" by Henry Drummond https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.470208/ "Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm Image: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., circa 1879 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Courtesy" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n219/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_203 Authors featured today: Rev. Dr. John Watson https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:John_Watson_(1850-1907) Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Book featured today: "Studies in the Christian Character" Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/studiesinchristi00page Image: Rev. John Watson (3 November 1850 – 6 May 1907), Scottish author and theologian https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ian_Maclaren_001.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Culture" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n219/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_202 Authors featured today: Hamilton W. Mabie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Wright_Mabie Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Henry David Thoreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau Image: Hamilton Wright Mabie https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_of_Hamilton_Wright_Mabie.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Thoughts" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n217/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_201 Authors featured today: Charles Benjamin Newcomb https://www.thenewcombs.org/2010/12/charles-benjamin-newcomb-1845-1922.html Possibly Christian Nestell Bovee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Nestell_Bovee Prentice Mulford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prentice_Mulford Michel de Montaigne https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne The reading attributed to Bovée is more commonly attributed to Montaigne. Image: Prentice Mulford, American humorist, 1877 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prentice_Mulford.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Right Use of Speech" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n217/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_200 Authors featured today: Bishop Francis Paget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Paget Book featured today: "Studies in the Christian Character" by Bishop Francis Paget https://archive.org/details/studiesinchristi00page Image: Francis Paget (1851-1911), Bishop of Oxford https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Paget.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Tolerance" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n215/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_199 Authors featured today: Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Book featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Oil painting by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1828 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg

Readings for July 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. "An Open Mind" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n215/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_198 Authors featured today: Benjamin Whichcote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Whichcote François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Constance Whishaw provides no attribution for today's first reading. Image: Benjamin Whichcote, Cambridge Platonist, Provost of King's College, Cambridge; painting by Mary Beale (1633–1699) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Beale https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_Whichcote_by_Mary_Beale.jpg

Readings for July 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. Argument Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n213/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_197 Authors featured today: Voltaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Herbert Spencer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer Constance Whishaw provides no attribution for the first reading, but it appears in Voltaire's "The Philosophical Dictionary." https://history.hanover.edu/texts/voltaire/volpreju.html https://archive.org/details/philosophicaldi01unkngoog/page/n210/mode/2up?q=Prejudice+is Image: English philosopher Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 - 8 December 1903) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbert_Spencer.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Argument" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n213/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_196 Authors featured today: William Penn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Penn George Herbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert Image: Chalk portrait of William Penn (1695) by Francis Place, "the only known image of William Penn's likeness known to be made from life." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francis_Place_Chalk_Portrait_of_William_Penn_1695.jpg

Readings for July 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. "Argument" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n211/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_195 Authors featured today: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury George Herbert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbert St. Francis de Sales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales Jean-Baptiste Henri-Dominique Lacordaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Henri_Lacordaire Image: Reverend Father Dominique Lacordaire, portrait by Théodore Chassériau https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Dominique_Lacordaire.jpg

Reading for July 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. "Conversation" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n211/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_194 Today's reading is unattributed, though its source may be Constance M. Whishaw. Image: "Faithful unto Death" painting by Sir Edward John Poynter, 1865 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Poynter https://tkparadosis.blogspot.com/2014/10/like-that-roman-soldier-in-pompeii-part.html

Readings for July 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. "Conversation" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n209/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_193 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe "H. A." is as yet unidentified. Image: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe at age 79 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goethe_(Stieler_1828).jpg

Readings for July 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. "Egotism" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n209/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_192 Authors featured today: François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer) Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Ada Celeste Sweet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Celeste_Sweet Image: Ada Celeste Sweet https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ADA_CELESTE_SWEET_A_woman_of_the_century_(page_712_crop).jpg

Readings for July 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. "Gossip" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n207/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_191 Authors featured today: Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham Charles Kingsley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Kingsley Book featured today: "Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft Image: The Reverend Henry Latham (1821-1902) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Reverend_Henry_Latham_(1821%E2%80%931902),_Master_(1888%E2%80%931902).jpg

Readings for July 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. "Back-biting" Original text: https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n207/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_190 Authors featured today: Frederic Farrar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Farrar Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson Book featured today: "Everyday Christian Life" by Frederic Farrar https://archive.org/details/MN41824ucmf_3 "Wisdom i. 2" refers to the Wisdom of Solomon from the apocrypha https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Apocrypha-Books/. The quotation occurs in chapter 1 but the particular verse is 11 rather than 2 https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Wisdom-of-Solomon-Chapter-1/. Image: Frederic William Farrar (1831 - 1903) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frederic_William_Farrar.jpg