Were commonplace books used for cultivating virtues?

Aug 16, 2013 ... From time to time I like re-reading my notebooks. Right now I plan to go through them slowly to mine them for ideas for future blog posts or ... Oct 4, 2024 ... [2] As Jillian M. Hess and Deidre Lynch have shown, commonplace books and the adjacent genres of scrapbooks and literary albums have a rich ... Mar 2, 2015 ... ... it's just a place where I collect notes and thoughts and quotes and such. Commonplace books aren't. Welcome to the online edition of the James Mill Commonplace Books. A collaborative project with the London Library. Aug 9, 2021 ... A commonplace book is a system for writing down and sorting all manner of tidbits: quotes, anecdotes, observations, and information gleaned from ... Apr 9, 2015 ... I thought I would discuss what a commonplace book is first, then how I was introduced and why I am obsessed! Feb 28, 2023 ... It's become one of my favorite notebooks and I wanted to show a little bit of it to you. There's a long history of commonplace books which you ... A commonplace book is what a provident poet cannot subsist without, for this proverbial reason, that “great wits have short memories.” Sep 9, 2016 ... In the future, I'll write more on my own digital and analog system that utilizes physical notebooks, Evernote, Readwise*, and Obsidian* as a ... Jan 31, 2017 ... Bullet journals, zibaldoni, and commonplace books. The explosion of interest in bullet journals which I've spoken about before, shows no sign of ...