hide Matching Documents

The documents where this entity occurs most often are shown below. Click on a document to open it.

Document Max. Freq Min. Freq
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.) 4 0 Browse Search
View all matching documents...

Browsing named entities in 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.). You can also browse the collection for English Phonology or search for English Phonology in all documents.

Your search returned 2 results in 2 document sections:

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)
and after studying law he was in June, 1785, admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, where he had become a citizen. He rose to such eminence in his profession that he afterwards declined Jefferson's offer to appoint him Chief Justice of Louisiana and was able to retire early in life and devote himself to linguistics. From 1791 he was a member of the American Philosophical Society, to whose interests he gave much time and energy, and to which he communicated his papers, for example, his English Phonology (1817) and his report on The structure of the Indian languages (1819). His memoir on The Indian languages of North America brought him the Volney prize awarded for linguistics by the Academy of Inscriptions of the French Institute. DuPonceau is notable also for his broad conception of the future of American literature, which he wished to emancipate from provincialism by bringing it into the great Continental European tradition. His discourse On the necessity and means of making our n
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)
0, 570 Emerson's magazine, 314 Emigrant's guide to the Gold Mines, the, 145 Emigration and immigration, 442 Emmett, Dan D., 495 Emmy Lou, 420 Emory, W. H., 144, 153 Enamoured Architect of Airy rhyme, 37 Encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences, the, 247 End of the World, the, 76 Englehardt, Fr. Zephyrin, 139 English and Scottish popular ballads, 484, 485 English grammar (Murray), 401 English-Greek Lexicon (Yonge), 461 English lands, letters, and kings, 112 English Phonology, 448 English reader (Murray), 401 Enquiry into the principles and tendencies of certain public measures, 432 Enterprise (Virginia City), 3 Epictetus, 119, 445, 460 Equitable Commerce, 437 Erato, 597 Esmeralda, 285 Essai Historique, 592 Essais Poetiques, 596 Essay concerning silver and paper, an, 426 Essay on currency, 426 Essay on the causes of the decline of foreign trade, an, 429 Essay on the domestic debts of the United States, an, 429 Essay on the l