Friendship XIX: Day 232 readings from "Character And Conduct" - August 22
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.
Readings for May 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.
"My Duty to my Neighbour"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n147/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_131
Authors featured today:
Robert Louis Stevenson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson
Stopford Brooke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopford_Brooke_(chaplain)
Ralph Waldo Emerson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Waldo_Emerson
Books featured today:
"Across the plains : with other memories and essays" by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://archive.org/stream/with00stevacrossplainsrich
http://robert-louis-stevenson.org/works/across-the-plains-with-other-memories-and-essays-1892/
"The Gospel of Joy" by Stopford Brooke
https://archive.org/details/gospeljoy00broogoog
Image:
Photograph of Robert Louis Stevenson
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rls-pc1.jpg
Readings for November 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.
"The Sharp Ferule of Calamity"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n327/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_311
Authors featured today:
Graham Balfour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Balfour
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Book featured today:
"The Life Of Robert Louis Stevenson" by Graham Balfour
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.235428
Image:
Sir Graham Balfour, biographer to Robert Louis Stevenson
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham_Balfour_jr.jpg
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 February 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.
"Duty"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n65/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_47
Authors featured today:
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
Alfred, Lord Tennyson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%2C_Lord_Tennyson
Book featured today:
"Amiel's Journal" by Henri-Frédéric Amiel
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/8545/8545-h/8545-h.htm
Image:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lithograph published in The Modern Portrait Gallery, 1890
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alfred-Lord-Tennyson#/media/1/587422/129891
Readings for March 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.
"Lessons of Suffering"
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:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Phillips Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
Image:
Phillips Brooks
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_Brooks.jpg
Readings for October 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.
"Our True Selves"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n307/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_291
Author featured today:
George Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Eliot
Image:
George Eliot (1819-1880), aged 30, by the Swiss artist Alexandre-Louis-François d'Albert-Durade (1804-1886)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Eliot,_por_Fran%C3%A7ois_D%27Albert_Durade.jpg
Readings for March 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.
"Service"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n97/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_80
Authors featured today:
Canon Samuel Barnett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Barnett_(reformer)
Henry Latham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Latham
Thomas Carlyle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle
Charles Dickens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
Book featured today:
"The Service of God" by Canon Samuel Barnett
"Pastor Pastorum" by Henry Latham
https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumor00lathuoft
https://archive.org/details/pastorpastorumo00lathgoog
"Past and Present" by Thomas Carlyle
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13534
Image:
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), daguerreotype by Jeremiah Gurney circa 1867 - 1868
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg
Readings for March 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.
"The Duty of Physical Health"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n101/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_85
Author featured today:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_Avebury
Book featured today:
"The Book of Common Prayer"
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Book_of_common_prayer_(TEC,_1979).pdf/177
Image:
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Lubbock72.jpg
Reading for September 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.
"Death"
Original text:
https://archive.org/details/characterandcon00unkngoog/page/n269/mode/2up
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39648/39648-h/39648-h.htm#Page_253
Author featured today:
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr.
Book featured today:
"The Professor at the Breakfast-Table" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
https://archive.org/search.php?query=holmes%20professor%20breakfast%20table
Image:
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oliver_Wendell_Holmes_Sr_c1879.jpg