Electronic Enlightenment Biographical Dictionary
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Name : Noah Webster [junior]
Dates : born 1758–died 1843
Nationality : American
Occupation : author; essayist; lawyer; lecturer; lexicographer; teacher
Correspondents include : Doctor Richard Price
Current document count : 0 written; 1 received . . . .
DOI
Full-text resources in the Oxford Text Archive*
- A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated. : In two volumes. / By Noah Webster, author of Dissertations on the English language and several other works--member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences--of the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures, in the state of New-York--of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding member of the Historical Society in Massachusetts. / Vol. I[-II].
- A Collection of papers on the subject of bilious fevers, prevalent in the United States for a few years past. Compiled by Noah Webster, Jun. Member of the Society for Promoting Agriculture, Arts and Manufactures in the state of New-York, and honorary member of the Historical Society in Boston.
- Effects of slavery, on morals and industry. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq. Counsellor at law and member of the Connecticut Society for ehe [sic] Promotion of Freedom.
- A grammatical institute of the English language; comprising, an easy, concise and systematic method of education; designed for the use of schools in America. : In three parts. : Part III. Containing the necessary rules of reading and speaking, and a variety of essays dialogues, and declamatory pieces, moral, political and entertaining; divided into lessons, for the use of children.
- A grammatical institute, of the English language, comprising, an easy, concise, and systematic method of education, designed for the use of English schools in America. : In three parts. : Part II. Containing, a plain and comprehensive grammar, grounded on the true principles and idioms of the language; with an analytical dissertation, in which the various uses of the auxiliary signs are unfolded and explained: and an essay towards investigating the rules of English verse.
- A journal of the transactions and occurrences in the settlement of Massachusetts and the other New-England colonies, from the year 1630 to 1644: written by John Winthrop, Esq; first governor of Massachusetts: and now first published from a correct copy of the original manuscript.
- An oration pronounced before the citizens of New-Haven on the anniversary of the independence of the United States, July 4th 1798; and published at their request. By Noah Webster, Jun.
- Three letters to Abraham Bishop, Esquire, containing some strictures on his oration, pronounced, in the white meeting-house, on the evening preceding the public commencement, September 1800, : with some remarks on his conduct at the late election.
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