Harvey Newcomb

Broschiertes Buch

Anecdotes For Boys

Beschreibung

Harvey Newcomb's "Anecdotes for Boys" is a group of inspiring and instructive reminiscences meant to train younger readers about proper and incorrect. There is a dedication to ethical schooling and individual growth in Newcomb's art. Newcomb talks approximately many extraordinary components of lifestyles thru a chain of interesting tales, that specialize in accurate characteristics like honesty, integrity, persistence, and kindness. The testimonies have been carefully chosen to hook up with the studies and troubling situations that boys face, coaching them essential classes about making ethical picks and building a strong feel of right and incorrect. Newcomb's writing style is open and interesting, which makes the testimonies understandable for more youthful readers while still coaching undying classes about being exact and taking duty on your moves. The reminiscences are approximately many things, along with what takes place when you're not sincere, what it's like to paintings difficult, and how crucial it's miles to be type to others. "Anecdotes for Boys" is each a fun examine and a way to educate boys about proper and incorrect. It suggests how the writer believes that tales can train important training approximately lifestyles. The collection continues to be a classic in the genre of moral literature, giving more youthful readers a realistically scary and thrilling manner to discover ethical and man or woman requirements.

Autor

American author and minister Harvey Newcomb was born on September 2, 1803 and died on August 30, 1863. Vermont is where he was born. He went to western New York in 1818 and taught for eight years. From 1826 to 1831, he was the editor of several journals, the last of which was the Christian Herald. He worked on writing and putting together books for the American Sunday School Union for the next ten years. In 1840, he got his license to teach. That same year, he became the pastor of a Congregational church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, and went on to lead other churches. In 1849, he was editor of the Boston Traveller. From 1850 to 1851, he was deputy editor of the New York Observer and preached at the Park Street mission church in Brooklyn, New York. In 1859, he became pastor of a church in Hancock, Pennsylvania. He often wrote for church magazines as well as the Boston Recorder and the Youth's Companion. Fourteen of his 178 books were about church history. Most of the others were books for kids, like Young Lady's Guide (New York, 1839), How to be a Man (Boston, 1846), How to be a Lady (1846), and Cyclopedia of Missions (1854; 4th ed., 1856).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Double9 Books
• Seitenzahl: 72
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 104g
• ISBN-13: 9789359959801
• ISBN-10: 9359959804
• Artikelnr.: 69881009