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Noah Webster (1) (1758–1843)

Autor von Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary

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Werke von Noah Webster

Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary (1958) — Herausgeber — 740 Exemplare
Webster's Dictionary (1972) 540 Exemplare
The Elementary Spelling Book (1857) 125 Exemplare
The Original Blue Back Speller (2002) 76 Exemplare
The American Spelling Book (1999) 69 Exemplare
The Webster Bible (1987) 30 Exemplare
Webster's New Handy Dictionary (1943) 19 Exemplare
The American Speller (1960) 14 Exemplare
witchline (1988) 3 Exemplare
Webster's Students Dictionary (1956) 3 Exemplare
Webster's Approved Dictionary (1943) 2 Exemplare
Webster's Bible (2010) 1 Exemplar
KJV Dictionary 1 Exemplar
English lexicon 1 Exemplar
Webster genealogy 1 Exemplar

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Essays on Education in the Early Republic (1965) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare

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Okay, I haven't actually read this book but I have looked up a lot of words in it! Very interesting, great history.
 
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Chica3000 | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 11, 2020 |
Prefixed Memoir of the Author dated 1847. Browned acidic pulp paper suggests date after 1850; say 1850-1920 (?) No publication date. The original Webster's unabridged dictionary--cover.
 
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ME_Dictionary | 4 weitere Rezensionen | Mar 20, 2020 |
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3 Education alone will render the American Revolution a blessing to mankind. Benjamin Rush
5 his new and novel plan for an American system of education
6 Webster's Institutes...being the only complete System of School Education ever published by an American author
9 Between 1802-1806, he authored and published his Elements of Useful Knowledge, a three-volume work filled with American history...
10 While in Mass., Webster served three terms in the state legislature, working to secure permanent funding for an educational system that would "discipline our youth in early life in sound maxims of moral, political, and religious duties."
11 In 1832, he revised his three-volume Elements of Useful Knowledge into a single, small history book for schools called the History of the US, It was clearly an American view of history; and just as his Institutes helped shape the structure of American language, this work helped shape the teaching of history
16 Even Webster's massive dictionary provides at least two striking illustrations of his insistence on Christianity in education. Fist, as Webster explained in its preface, that great dictionary was dedicated to God: "to the great and benevolent Being, who during the preparation of this work, has sustained a feeble constitution, amidst obstacles and toils, disappointments, infirmities and depression...
17 "...Only two men have stood on the New World whose fame is so sure to last--Columbus, its discoverer, and Washington its savior. Webster is, and will be its great teacher; and these three make our trinity of fame."

21, 29 Advice to the Young, from History of the US, gives as its first five points, respect for and obedience to parents.
27 Goodness or holiness is the only source of real happiness; it is therefore necessary to be holy in order to be happy...
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