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Author: Noah Webster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Comprises Noah Webster's formal autobiography (published here for the first time, according to the publisher), several other of his writings about his life, and an analytical essay by the editor. Webster's comments are wide-ranging about American life and public figures between 1778 and 1843. Annota
Author: Noah Webster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Comprises Noah Webster's formal autobiography (published here for the first time, according to the publisher), several other of his writings about his life, and an analytical essay by the editor. Webster's comments are wide-ranging about American life and public figures between 1778 and 1843. Annota
Author: Noah Webster Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Comprises Noah Webster's formal autobiography (published here for the first time, according to the publisher), several other of his writings about his life, and an analytical essay by the editor. Webster's comments are wide-ranging about American life and public figures between 1778 and 1843. Annota
Author: Jeri Ferris Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0547390556 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 37
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An innovative picture-book biography about the man who wrote American history by creating the first dictionary for the United States. Full color.
Author: Pegi Deitz Shea Publisher: Astra Publishing House ISBN: 1635925142 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 42
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This picture book celebrates one of the most important patriots in post-Revolutionary times -- Noah Webster. Most readers know Noah Webster for his dictionary masterpieces and his promotion of a living "American Language" that embraces words and idioms from all its immigrant peoples. But he was also the driving force behind universal education for all citizens, including slaves, females, and adult learners. Speaker of twenty languages, he developed the new country's curriculum, writing and publishing American literature, American history, and American geography. He published New York City's first daily newspaper. As editor, Webster conducted a study and linked disease with poor sanitation. He created the country's first insurance company, established America's first copyright law, and became America's first best-selling author.
Author: Catherine Reef Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0544129830 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 229
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An upper-middle-grade biography on Noah Webster, a controversial political activist, the primary shaper of the American language, and author of the famous dictionary that bears his name. Illustrated with archival images.
Author: David Micklethwait Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 9780786421572 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 362
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Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Author: Horace Elisha Scudder Publisher: Theclassics.Us ISBN: 9781230319087 Category : Languages : en Pages : 58
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI. PREPARATION FOR THE DICTIONARY. It is not an uncommon experience by which a young man strikes at once the note of his career, then appears to wander or experiment, and returns more surely to his original expression, following that steadily to the end. It was thus with Webster. His "Grammatical Institute," inclosing the perennial speller, was his first declaration; then he made ventures in different directions, but returned to studies in language, and finally embodied the results of his lifetime in his great Dictionary. In reading biography, we wish to get at the ruling passion of the man; how often the man himself seems bewildered in his search for it, groping in this direction and in that, uncertain, to use Dr. Bushnell's vigorous phrase, if he has yet grasped the handle of his being. It cannot be said that Webster ever laid aside his special studies and resumed them after long intervals. His earliest and most characteristic work, "A Grammatical Institute," was always by him, and the Speller, which emerged from it, became of so much pecuniary importance that it could not fail to determine in many ways his occupation. The "Minerva" from the first had constant advertisements both of "A Grammatical Institute " and of the early volume of "Dissertations"; there were frequent announcements of new editions of the Spelling-Book, and of the rate at which it could be had in quantities. Country merchants began to lay in supplies of Webster's Spelling-Book, when they came to the nearest trading town, as confidently as they bought West India goods or English tools. Webster gave lectures, as he traveled north and south, upon the English language. His reputation was forming upon this line, and it is not unlikely that his partial failure in...
Author: Noah Webster
Author: Noah Webster
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Author: Horace Elisha Scudder
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Author: Horace Elisha Scudder