The Corner- Stone, or a Familiar Illustration of the Principles of Christian Truth

by Abbott, Jacob

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Book description: Boston: William Peirce. Very Good-. 1834. Hardcover. 360 pages, cloth, very good for its age. From the preface: "The following work is intended to be, in some sense, the counterpart to "Young Christian; " that having exhibited the first principles of Christian duty, and this on the other hand developing the elements of religious truth. " From the Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th edition: "Jacob Abbott's "Rollo Books" - Rollo at Work, Rollo at Play, Rollo in Europe, &c. (28 vols. ) - are the best known of his writings, having as their chief characters a representative boy and his associates. In them Abbott did for one or two generations of young American readers a service not unlike that performed earlier, in England and America, by the authors of Evenings at Home, Sandford and Merton, and the Parent's Assistant. Of his other writings (he produced more than two hundred volumes in all) , the best are the Franconia Stories (10 vols. ) , twenty-two volumes of biographical histories in a series of thirty-two volumes (with his brother John S. C. Abbott) , and the Young Christian, -all of which had enormous circulations. " .

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