1844 Book: " Frost's Pictorial Wonders Of History"

Book is in fair condition, some foxing on front and back inside cover pages, stain on lower right corner of some pages. Information on the author below is from Worthpoint.com.
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"The Wonders of History comprising remarkable battles, sieges, feats of arms, and instances of courage, ability, and magnanimity, occurring in the annals of the world, from the earliest ages to the present time. Embellished with several hundred engravings on wood. It is limited to the Old World. John Frost, a Philadelphia school teacher turned writer was born in Kennebunk, Maine, in 1800 and educated at Bowdoin and Harvard. He spent the majority of his early career as a teacher and a principal. When not engaged in the training of minds, Frost pursued his substantial literary ambitions, aspirations that did not always endear him to those of his students who were made to act as "assistants" in his various projects. Accusing Frost of manipulating their children for personal gain, several wealthy parents withdrew their financial support from his school, and he was forced to resign. Frost's passion for teaching proved "incongruous" with his love of literature, and "literature triumphed." In the years following his resignation from teaching, John Frost produced hundreds of books for the popular market, including a novel in 1841, Enoch Crosby: or, the Spy Unmasked: A Tale of the American Revolution, as well as travel accounts, captivity narratives, ancient histories, and broad and ambitious compendia with titles such as The Wonders of History, "comprising remarkable battles, sieges, feats of arms, and instances of courage, ability and magnanimity, occurring in the annals of the world, from the earliest ages to the present."
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