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  • The Christian Mother

    by John Abbott ...
    "Be an example . . . in speech, in the way you live, in your love, your faith, and your purity." 1 Timothy 4:12 "Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." Proverbs 22:6 The object of this book is practical utility, not literary effect. It was written for mothers in the common walks of life. There are many mothers, in every village of our land, who are ... Read more

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  • Captain William Kidd and others of the Buccaneers

    by John Abbott ...
    There can scarcely anything be found in the literature of our language, more wild and wonderful, than the narrative contained in this volume. The extraordinary career of Captain Kidd, a New-York merchant, the demoniac feats of those fiends in human form, Bonnet, Barthelemy, and Lolonois; the romantic history of the innocent female pirate Mary Read, and of the termagant Anne Bonney; the amazing ... Read more

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  • The Drama School Handbook

    Getting In, Getting On and Getting Out There

    by John Abbott ...
    Is your ambition to be an actor in films, TV shows and plays?Do you want to train at a drama school to start making that ambition a reality?Are you looking for honest, expert advice to boost your chances of success and beat the competition?If your answer to these questions is YES, then this essential guide to drama schools is for you!Written by an acting teacher with decades of experience in top ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The History of Prussia

    by John Abbott ...
    About the year of our Lord 997, Adelbert, Bishop of Prague, with two companions, set out on a missionary tour to the shores of the Baltic. The savage inhabitants killed him. Still Christianity gradually gained ground. As the ages rolled on, idolatry disappeared, and nominal Christianity took its place. The people were poor, ignorant, widely dispersed, and but partially civilized. During weary ... Read more

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  • The Acting Book

    by John Abbott ...
    A 'fast-forward' acting course covering all the essential techniques an actor needs to know and use – with a suite of exercises to put each technique into practice.John Abbott's The Acting Book offers various ways to analyse a text and to create character, using not only the established processes of Stanislavsky and Meisner, but also new ones developed by the author over many years of teaching ... Read more

    $20.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • George Washington

    by John Abbott ...
    George Washington has no superior. The life of Washington reveals to us, in a remarkable degree, the state of society in our land, the manners and customs of the people, their joys and griefs, one hundred years ago. Humanity is proud of his name. He seems to have approached as near perfection as any man who ever lived. In his wonderful career we became familiar with all the struggles of the ... Read more

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  • Daniel Boone

    by John Abbott ...
    The little fleet of three small vessels, with which Columbus left Palos in Spain, in search of a new world, had been sixty-seven days at sea. They had traversed nearly three thousand miles of ocean, and yet there was nothing but a wide expanse of waters spread out before them. The despairing crew were loud in their murmurs, demanding that the expedition should be abandoned and that the ships ... Read more

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  • Charles Ellet and His Naval Steam Rams, Illustrated

    by John Abbott ...
    A contemporaneous account of Ellet's steam rams and their place in the history of opening the Mississippi. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • King Philip

    by John Abbott ...
    On the 11th of November, 1620, the storm-battered Mayflower, with its band of one hundred and one Pilgrims, first caught sight of the barren sand-hills of Cape Cod. The shore presented a cheerless scene even for those weary of a more than four months voyage upon a cold and tempestuous sea. But, dismal as the prospect was, after struggling for a short time to make their way farther south, ... Read more

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  • Captain William Kidd

    by John Abbott ...
    There are but few persons, in the United States, who have not heard the name of the renowned pirate, Captain Kidd. There are also but few to be found who have any intelligent conception of his wild and guilty career. The banks of the Hudson, the islands scattered through the Sound which skirts the southern New-England coast, and the wild rivers and craggy harbors which fringe the rugged shores of ... Read more

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  • Madame Roland

    by John Abbott ...
    Many characters of unusual grandeur were developed by the French Revolution. Among them all, there are few more illustrious, or more worthy of notice, than that of Madame Roland. The eventful story of her life contains much to inspire the mind with admiration and with enthusiasm, and to stimulate one to live worthily of those capabilities with which every human heart is endowed. No person can read ... Read more

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  • Henry IV

    by John Abbott ...
    History is our Heaven-appointed instructor. It is the guide for the future. The calamities of yesterday are the protectors of to-day.The sea of time we navigate is full of perils. But it is not an unknown sea. It has been traversed for ages, and there is not a sunken rock or a treacherous sand-bar which is not marked by the wreck of those who have preceded us. ... Read more

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