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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.) 100 0 Browse Search
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.) 90 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 85 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 13. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 38 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 20 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 10 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 6 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 4 0 Browse Search
George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 14, 1865., [Electronic resource], Flour to Rio de Janeiro. (search)
The Philadelphia Pressabuses a contemporary of this city because he does not spell like Noah Webster. Before long, somebody will be abusing somebody else for not spelling like Mr. Yellow plush. To "spell like Noah Webster" has grown into a proverb in this part of the world. It is applied to none but the vilest spellers. For our own part, we are much obliged to Noah for not spelling Congress with a. k. Doubtless he would have done so had he lived to publish another edition. Noah was a gNoah Webster" has grown into a proverb in this part of the world. It is applied to none but the vilest spellers. For our own part, we are much obliged to Noah for not spelling Congress with a. k. Doubtless he would have done so had he lived to publish another edition. Noah was a great Republican. He hated the English King, and spent his life in killing the King's English. John P. Haleobjected, on the floor of the Senate, to an appropriation for printing the Congressional Globe because, he said, they used Noah's Dictionary in the Globe office. It was a very natural objection. No man likes to see himself made to spell like a kitchen maid.