See also:JOHN See also:STEVENS See also:CABOT See also:ABBOTT (1805-1877)
, See also:American writer, was See also:born in See also:Brunswick, See also:Maine, on the 18th of See also:September 18o5
.
He was a See also:brother of See also:Jacob See also:Abbott, and was associated with him in the management of Abbott's See also:Institute, New See also:York See also:City, and in the preparation of his See also:series of brief See also:historical See also:biographies
.
He is best known, however, as the author of a See also:partisan and unscholarly, but widely popular and very readable See also:History of See also:Napoleon See also:Bonaparte (1855), in which the various elements and episodes in Napoleon's career are treated with some skill in arrangement, but with unfailing adulation
.
Dr Abbott graduated at See also:Bowdoin See also:College in 1825, prepared for the See also:ministry at See also:Andover Theological See also:Seminary, and between 183o and 1844, when he retired from the ministry, preached successively at See also:Worcester, See also:Roxbury and See also:Nantucket, See also:Massachusetts
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He died at See also:Fair Haven, See also:Connecticut, on the 17th of See also:June 1877
.
He was a voluminous writer of books on See also:Christian See also:ethics, and of histories, which now seem unscholarly and untrustworthy, but were valuable in their See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in cultivating a popular See also:interest in history
.
In See also:general, except that he did not write juvenile fiction, his See also:work ih subject and See also:style closely resembles that of his brother, Jacob Abbott
.
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