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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 8 0 Browse Search
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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 2 0 Browse Search
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William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik, Chapter 2. (search)
lar was required to go outside, and re-enter the room as a lady or gentleman would enter a drawing-room or parlor. Another scholar would receive the first party at the door, and escort him or her about the room, making polite introductions to each person in the room. How the gaunt and clumsy Abe went through this performance we shall probably never know. If his awkward movements gave rise to any amusement, his school-mates never revealed it. The books used at school were Webster's Spelling Book and the American Speller. All the scholars learned to cipher, and afterwards used Pike's Arithmetic. Mr. Lincoln told me in later years that Murray's English Reader was the best school-book ever put into the hands of an American youth. I conclude, therefore, he must have used that also. At Crawford's school Abe was credited with the authorship of several literary efforts — short dissertations in which he strove to correct some time-honored and wanton sport of the schoolboy. While in
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: books for children (search)
ous or mundane, ventured to show its head in reckless juveniles which came chiefly from the London shop of John Newbery. But it required half a century to convince parents that the combination was not pernicious—even parents who were allowing their children to read abridged editions of Clarissa and Tom Jones as well as Moll Flanders. As for the meagre American product, even The children's magazine (Hartford, 1789) made almost no attempt to approach the child's level. In Noah Webster's Spelling Book (1783), eight short illustrated fables formed the only concession to childish interest. The solitary instance of the amusement book proper was Songs for the nursery, an edition of Mother Goose published in Boston some seventy years before; and it remained solitary for almost as many to come. By 800, however, the somewhat more humanized instruction of Mrs. Barbauld and Mrs. Trimmer and Miss Edgeworth and Miss More had crossed the water. Home production arose through the desire for s
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, 296 Southern literary Messenger, the, 58, 63, 63 n., 68 n., 153, 168, 169, 290, 293, 296 Southern magazine, the, 389 Southern poems of the Civil War, the, 300 Southern States of the American Union, the, 320 Southey, 305 Spanish student, the, 37, 38 Sparks, Jared, 113, 115-118, 119, 122, 164, 208 Sparrowgrass papers, the, 154 Spartacus to the Gladiators, 403 n. Special pleading, 343 Specimen days, 270, 270 n., 272 Spectator, the, 22, 162, 234, 348, 368 Spelling Book (Noah Webster), 396 Spencer, Herbert, 222 Spenser, Edmund, 3, 248, 254 Sphinx, the, 67 Spinoza, 209 Spiritual milk for Boston Babes in either England, 396 Spofford, Harriet P., 373 Spooner, Aldin, 260 Squibob papers, 156 Stackpole, Joseph Lewis, 134 Stanzas (My life is like the summer rose), 289 Stanton, Frank L., 351 Star (Spooner), 260 Starry flag series, The, 404 Star papers, 215 Star Spangled Banner, the, 298 Statement of reasons for not be
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
opular work of reference. The only rival to Webster in popularity and fame was Lindley Murray (1745-1826), a Quaker educator of New York and New Jersey. In 1795 he published his English grammar, in 1797 his English reader, and in 1804 his Spelling Book. These, somewhat more scholarly than those of Webster, and, as became an author English-born, somewhat less narrowly nationalistic, were also extremely popular, widely used, and greatly influential. In 1784 Jedidiah Morse issued his Geograpticut farmer's boy, graduated at Yale in 1778, and after studying law and teaching school in several Connecticut towns, compiled in the years following 1782 his Grammatical Institute of the English language, in three parts: (I) his celebrated Spelling Book (1783), of which more than eighty million copies are said to have been sold before 1880; (II) a Plain and comprehensive grammar (1784); (III) a Reader (1785). His first dictionary, the Compendious Dictionary of 1806, at once takes independent
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
2 Spanish idyls and legends, 53 Spanish literature (Ticknor), 468 Sparks, Jared, 173, 176, 178, 183 Spaulding, E. G., 264 Spaulding, Solomon, 520 Specimens (Joaquin Miller), 54 Spectator, the, 110 Speed, Joshua F., 371 Spelling Book (Murray), 401 Spelling Book (Webster), 475 Spencer, 180, 181, 192, 229, 229 n., 230, 231, 234, 237, 240 n., 245, 251, 285, 540 n. Spenser, 484, 559 n. Spindler, G. W., 447 n. Spinoza, 255, 263 Spirit of learning, the, 41Spelling Book (Webster), 475 Spencer, 180, 181, 192, 229, 229 n., 230, 231, 234, 237, 240 n., 245, 251, 285, 540 n. Spenser, 484, 559 n. Spindler, G. W., 447 n. Spinoza, 255, 263 Spirit of learning, the, 417 Spirit of modern philosophy, the, 245 Spirit of the Orient, the, 213 Spoils of Poynton, the, 103, 105 Spooner, Lysander, 437 Spoon River anthology, the, 615 Spring (Hovey), 51, 52 Springfield Mountain, 512, 514, 515 Springfield Republican, 310 Spring journey in California, a, 165 Spring notes from Tennessee, 165 Spurrier, John, 430 Squatter sovereignty, 279 Squier, E. G., 136 Squirrel Inn, 274 Stael, Madame de, 453 Standard Dictionary, 480 Standard of u
James Parton, The life of Horace Greeley, Chapter 3: early childhood. (search)
the head of the first class, embracing the most advanced scholars. He stood there at the time referred to, and by missing a word, lost his place, which so grieved him that he wept like a punished child. While I knew him he did not engage with other children in the usual recreations and amusements of the school grounds; as soon as the school was dismissed at noon, he would start for home, a distance of halt a mile, with all his books under his arm, including the New Testament, Webster's Spelling Book, English Reader, &c., and would not return till the last moment of intermission; at least such was his practice in the summer time. With regard to his aptness in spelling, it used to be said that the minister of the town, Rev. Mr. McGregor, once attempted to find a word or name in the Bible which he could not spell correctly, but failed to do so. I always supposed, however, that this was an exaggeration, for he could not have been more than seven years old at the time this was told. M