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Day 18 - Harvard Classics - 90 Day Challenge





Mar 9: TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS

Common Sense and Good Manners

Swift regretted the laws against dueling because dueling at least
was a good means of ridding the country of bores and fools.
His keen eye penetrated social customs and saw the common
sense that governed good manners.

Read: TREATISE ON GOOD MANNERS .............  Vol. 27, pp. 99-103


Mar 10: PHILASTER

Beaumont—The Adonis of Elizabethan Playwrights

In the days when contact with the theatre meant exile from the
best society, Beaumont and Fletcher, men from good families,
dared to ally themselves with the stage as playwrights. "Philaster"
won them immortal praise.

Read from PHILASTER .........................    Vol. 47, pp. 667-677


Mar 11: Emerson's COMPENSATION

Gain Gleaned from Suffering

We are paid for our suffering and we pay for our happiness.
Every ache, every sorrow receives its recompense here on earth.
Emerson gives the basis for this conviction.

Read from Emerson's COMPENSATION .............   Vol. 5, pp. 85-92


Mar 12: Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES

An Irish Bishop's Wit

Berkeley believed in a great religious future for America. He
lived three years in Rhode Island, and made plans for a college
in Bermuda.

Read from Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES .........  Vol. 37, pp. 228-238