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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909. Excerpt: ... Mr. Alcott Amos Bronson Alcott was born in Wolcott, Connecticut, November 29, 1799. From his mother he inherited a gentle, refined nature. She wished him to have a college education and to study for the ministry, but the circumstances of the family did not permit this. From the age of six to ten he attended the common school nine months of the year, and the next four years during the winter only. This was supplemented by reading all the books he could borrow from the families for miles around. Among these books were, "Hervey's Meditations," Young's "Night Thoughts," Burgh's "Dignity of Human Nature," and Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." The latter he borrowed and read every year while at home. Books were his great delight; he spent his evenings in reading, and took his book to the field to read while the oxen rested. At the age of twelve he began keeping a diary, using ink which he made himself. In the spring when he was fifteen, being dissatisfied with farm life, he found employment at a clock factory; but as he was not pleased there, he went home and for three months studied with the minister of the parish. Note.--All quoted passages are excerpts from " Memoir of Bronson Alcott." After this, with his cousin, William Alcott, he made two trips on foot, peddling small wares, through Western Massachusetts. Then he canvassed in New York for a book. A year later he and his cousin were confirmed in the Episcopal church and he was encouraged in studying for the ministry. The nearest he came to being a clergyman was that, when meetings were held in the schoolhouse by the Episcopalians, he and his cousin took turns in reading prayers and sermons. In later years, when he gave up the idea of the ministry on account of the expense, he drifted away from the rites and f...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781151545367
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151545368
  • Publisher Date: 04 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 64 gr


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