. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ~v r «-!«-»: v^ i»r,.Y-»i-»:-Y- ly- -?^?^^- ?^?vv^-^^? Y y-^ SOg© ?H^Mf^ Noted Literary Cskbritiss. 0>. I People Well-Known in the World o
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. ~v r «-!«-»: v^ i»r,.Y-»i-»:-Y- ly- -?^?^^- ?^?vv^-^^? Y y-^ SOg© ?H^Mf^ Noted Literary Cskbritiss. 0>. I People Well-Known in the World of Letters. A. BRONSON ALCOTT. THE amiable philosopher of Concord, Amos Bronson Alcott, isa welcome visitant in families where his varied accomplishmentsand teachings are known and appreciated. The son of a farmer,he came into existence at Wolcott, Conn., November 29, 1799. Inearly life he traveled in Virginia from place to place, carrying with hima trunk of merchandise belonging to a merchant in the vicinity of his home, which he , gLOO sold here and ^there in theplanters fami-lies. It washere that hefound oppor-tunities in dif-ferent house-holds to borrowand read books,and so to lay thefoundation ofhis he re-turned home hebecame theteacher of aninfant school,in which voca-tion he was soonremarkably suc-cessful. Goingto Boston in1828, be again attracted attention by his mild and conversational manner of teach-ing bojs and girls from five to seven years old in his private system met with so much opposition from the p
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