Character of Henry Drummond I: Day 22 reading from "Character And Conduct" - January 22
Reading for January 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.
Frontispiece of "The Life of Henry Drummond" by George Adam Smith, published in 1898 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drummond_Henry_frontispiece.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 June 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.
"Conceit"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n179/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_162
Author featured today:
Plutarch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutarch
Image:
Bust of Plutarch at Chaeronea
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plutarch_of_Chaeronea-03_(cropped).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 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 May 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.
"Sin"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n165/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_149
Authors featured today:
Rev Robert William Barbour, father of George Freeland Barbour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Freeland_Barbour
James Russell Lowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell
Image:
James Russell Lowell - American professor, poet, and diplomat
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_R_Lowell.jpg
Reading for March 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.
"Mens Sana in Corpore Sano"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n99/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_83
Author featured today:
Henry Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Drummond_(evangelist)
Book featured today:
"The Ideal Life" https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.261849
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxhYXRvd2d8Z3g6MTVkNDJlNzliZDQzYzFjNw
Image:
Henry Drummond
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/henry-drummond-scottish-evangelical-mary-evans-picture-library.html
Readings for January 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.
"Character and Service"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n29/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_11
Authors featured today:
Edward Bulwer-Lytton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain)
Image:
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton by Henry William Pickersgil
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_George_Earle_Lytton_Bulwer_Lytton,_1st_Baron_Lytton_by_Henry_William_Pickersgill.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
Readings for June 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.
"Bearing Criticism"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n171/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_155
Authors featured today:
Blaise Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal
Alexander Pope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope
Image:
Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744), possibly the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Pope_by_Michael_Dahl.jpg