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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.), Book III (continued) (search)
mpromise bill became a law, Clay Ibid. and Webster See Book II, Chap. XVI. in 1852. A numbe These, somewhat more scholarly than those of Webster, and, as became an author English-born, somewmmar of the English language (1807), but also Webster's great Dictionary of 1828, though it represehed by the Yale achievement in lexicography. Webster and Worcester were Yale men; Whitney is closeCambridge early in 1825, was issued in 1828. Webster lived to make one revision (for the edition oed outside the classic pale. In this respect Webster's broad personal experience as farmer, lawyertuted for the word itself. Quotations it was Webster's policy to employ only to illustrate those d if not before, by William Chauncey Fowler, Noah Webster's son-in-law. In 1851 Child introduced it nintelligible one to all the rest. In 1789 Noah Webster prophesied that there would develop, in a c, Suffield [Conn.], 1800, p. 16. Cooper has Noah Webster's own creatur , ventur , f'erce. Sarpint, [26 more...]
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)
181 American Dictionary of the English language (Webster), 476 American doctrine of liberty, the, 417 y, 31, 32-34, 56 Dickinson, R., 432 Dictionary (Webster), 446, 470, 475-78 Dictionary of Philosophy, 243 Philosophy of wealth, 442 Pictorial Dictionary (Webster), 477, 478 Pierce, J. D., 409 Pietro Ghisleri,tkin, W. B., 264 Plain and comprehensive grammar (Webster), 475 Phoenix, John, 7 Physical geology of thn T., 271 Read, T. Buchanan, 38, 40, 48 Reader (Webster), 475 Reading Adler, 576 Reagan, John H., 35171 Spelling Book (Murray), 401 Spelling Book (Webster), 475 Spencer, 180, 181, 192, 229, 229 n., 230, 208 Superstition and force, 194 Supplement (to Webster's Dictionary), 477 Surf, 275, 276 Surry of eagwords, Thomas, 537 Sylvis, W. H., 344 Synopsis (Webster), 476 Syntax of classical Greek, 466 Syntax or, 467 Webster, Daniel, 101, 337, 346, 347 Webster, Noah, 21, 400, 401, 418, 446, 470, 475, 475-478, 479,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, VIII: Emerson's foot-note person, --Alcott (search)
and returned, with a sense of grateful relief, from this sally into the Kingdom of Mammon, back to my domicile in the Soul. There was, however, strangely developed in Alcott's later life an epoch of positively earning money. His first efforts at Western lectures began in the winter of 1853-54, and he returned in February, 1854. He was to give a series of talks on the representative minds of New England, with the circle of followers surrounding each; the subjects of his discourse being Webster, Greeley, Garrison, Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker, Greenough, and Emerson; the separate themes being thus stated as seven, and the number of conversations as only six. Terms for the course were three dollars. By his daughter Louisa's testimony he returned late at night with a single dollar in his pocket, this fact being thus explained in his own language : Many promises were not kept and travelling is costly; but I have opened the way, and another year shall do better. Sanborn and H
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 17 (search)
hildren and Stories from my Attic. Becoming associated with Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, he edited for them the Atlantic Monthly from 1890 to 1898, preparing for it also that invaluable Index, so important to bibliographers; he also edited the American Commonwealths series, and two detached volumes, American poems (1879) and American prose (1880). He published also the Bodley books (8 vols., Boston, 1875 to 1887); The Dwellers in five Sisters' Court (1876); Boston town (1881); Life of Noah Webster (1882); A History of the United States for schools (1884); Men and letters (1887) ; Life of George Washington (1889); Literature in School (1889); Childhood in literature and art (1894), besides various books of which he was the editor or compiler only. He was also for nearly six years (1877-82) a member of the Cambridge School Committee; for five years (1884-89) of the State Board of Education ; for nine years (1889-98) of the Harvard University visiting committee in English literature
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 7: (search)
h would make the whole, quavering, or psalmsinging, Jacky, or Johnny. Doodle-sack means bag-pipe. Johnny would refer to John Bull; and if doodlen be made in the present tense, Yankee-doodle would be Johnny that sings Psalms. Hart-kee, my little dear heart, and hundreds of other diminutives, both in endearment and in ridicule, are illustrations of the formation of the word. It amused me not a little, and seems probable enough as an etymology; better, certainly, than to bring it, with Noah Webster, from the Persian. January 5.—We went last evening to Miss Clarke's, where there was rather more of a party than usual, collected by formal invitation. Fauriel was there, of course, and Mohl; but there was, also, a number of ladies, among whom were Mad. Tastu, the well-known authoress; the Princess Belgiojoso,—the well-known lady of fashion, and one of the most striking and distinguees persons in Parisian society; the Countess de Roy, who also figures in the saloons, etc. I met, too,
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Gregg's brigade of South Carolinians in the Second. Battle of Manassas. (search)
for the charge without stopping to fire. General Gordon is enthusiastic over the charge of Grover's brigade, but I think if he could have seen the Twelfth as they rose with a rush and a shout, and with cold steel and nothing more, closed in with the New Englanders, he would have found room for his brush on our side, too, of the picture he has so well drawn. The struggle, indeed, was a memorable one. It was the consummation of the grand debate between Massachusetts and South Carolina. Webster and Calhoun had exhausted the argument in the Senate, and now the soldiers of the two States were fighting it out eye to eye, hand to hand, man to man. If the debates in the Senate chamber were able and eloquent, the struggle on that knoll at Manassas was brave and glorious. Each State showed there that it had the courage of its convictions. General Gordon does not exaggerate or paint too highly the scene of that conflict. But it was too fearful, if not too grand, to last. Slowly at fir
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Republic of Republics. (search)
ut the time of the celebrated contest between Webster and Hayne, the civil war, which subsequently tted all that the South ever claimed. When Mr. Webster, in the closing years of his life, witnesseion to all these, what are the voices even of Webster and Story and Curtis? In themselves not impoer, his construction meant fabrication; while Webster, as the advocate, aimed at the triumph and pe these he places the ideas of the perverters, Webster, Dane, Story, Curtis, and of the Acre of Wiseons. Moreover, the doctrines of Dane, Story, Webster and Jackson, were the platform, nay, the veryows to be correct, and for the use of which Mr. Webster charged Mr. Calhoun with abandoning constit school of perverters from Dane to Curtis. Noah Webster always asserted, according to the unquestioe this book from page 365 to 375. Shade of Noah Webster, with thy philological record, and with thyey deserved, doubtless he would have required Webster and Story to read alternately to each other t[7 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Sherman's method of making war. (search)
hilanthropic institutions. Speaking of fellows hanging about the army, he says: The Sanitary and Christian Commissions are enough to eradicate all trace of Christianity from our minds. July 14th, to General J. E. Smith, at Alatoona: If you entertain a bare suspicion against any family, send it to the North. Any loafer or suspicious person seen at any time should be imprisoned and sent off. If guerillas trouble the road or wires they should be shot without mercy. September 8. To General Webster, after the capture of Atlanta: Don't let any citizens come to Atlanta; not one. I won't allow trade or manufactures of any kind, but will remove all the present population, and make Atlanta a pure military town. To General Halleck he writes, I am not willing to have Atlanta encumbered by the families of our enemies. Of this wholesale depopulation, General Hood complained, by flag of truce, as cruel and contrary to the usages of civilized nations, and customs of war, receiving this co
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 35. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.48 (search)
d make such surrender, absolutely, of certain sovereign rights, in order to form civil society or government, was, at the time of the formation and adoption of our Federal Constitution, wholly new. Pelatiah Webster, in 1783, first expressed the idea that a Federal Government could be formed that should act, not on the States, but directly on individuals. (To him Dr. Bledsoe refers in note on page 52 of the work under review, but inadvertently gives the credit of the idea mentioned to Noah Webster.) The former, it is true, conceived the idea of the possibility of a divided sovereignty; but even by him, the idea that the States could surrender, absolutely, certain sovereign rights—as individuals might surrender certain natural rights—seems not to have been clearly defined. He saw as but through a glass, darkly on this subject. In truth neither he nor any of his contemporaries had any aid toward reaching the conclusion that a divided sovereignty might be made absolute, from any his
The Daily Dispatch: August 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Patrick Henry. (search)
Death of Mrs. Ellsworth. --Mrs. Emily Ellsworth, the wife of the Hon. Judge Ellsworth, of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, died at Hartford on Friday night. She was the eldest daughter of the distinguished Noah Webster, Ll. D.
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