John Abbott: 164 books

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins, which the world sees not, and of which it knows but little. None lead this double life more emphatically than those who are seated upon thrones.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: With Engravings. An historical account of Hortense, one of the world's noblest women. Hortense's father fell beneath the slide of the guillotine; her mother was imprisoned and doomed to die; and she...

Childhood. 1754-1767 Characters developed by the French Revolution. Madame Roland. 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...

"This book is intended for the children of those families to which The Mother at Home has gone. It is prepared with the hope that it may exert an influence upon the minds of the children, in exciting gratitude for their parents’love, and in forming characters which shall ensure future usefulness...

The French Revolution was perhaps as important an event as has occurred in the history of nations. It was a drama in three acts. The first was the Revolution itself, properly so called, with its awful scenes of terror and of blood—the exasperated millions struggling against the accumulated oppression...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. The Enterprise of James Marquette. CHAPTER II. The First Exploration of the Mississippi River. CHAPTER III. Marquette's Last Voyage, and Death. CHAPTER IV. Life upon the St. Lawrence and the Lakes Two Hundred...

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...

PREFACE. CHAPTER I. RESPONSIBILITY. The Police Court. The widow and her daughter. Effect of a child’s conduct upon the happiness of its parents. The young sailor. The condemned pirate visited by his parents. Consequences of disobedience. A mother’s grave. The sick child. CHAPTER II. DECEPTION. George...