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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.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Worcester, Joseph Emerson 1784-1865 (search)
Worcester, Joseph Emerson 1784-1865 Lexicographer; born in Bedford, N. H., Aug. 24, 1784; graduated at Yale College in 1811. While teaching school at Salem he wrote A Geographical dictionary, or universal Gazetteer, ancient and modern, published in 1817. In 1818 he issued a Gazetteer of the United States. This was followed by several elementary works on geography and history. In 1828 he issued Johnson's English dictionary, as improved by Todd and abridged by Chalmers, with Walker's pro of the United States. This was followed by several elementary works on geography and history. In 1828 he issued Johnson's English dictionary, as improved by Todd and abridged by Chalmers, with Walker's pronouncing dictionary combined, to which is added Walker's Key. Dr. Worcester is best known by his series of dictionaries. For a complete list of his works see Allibone's Critical dictionary of English Literature, and British and American authors. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 27, 1865.
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 it is this dilution that Professor Lounsbury performed in some of his less weighty works, for example, The standard of usage in English. The Harvard achievement in rhetoric is matched by the Yale achievement in lexicography. Webster and Worcester were Yale men; Whitney is closely associated with Yale; and the first American dictionary, that of Samuel Johnson, Jr. (1757-1836), son of the Samuel Johnson who was the first president of King's College, was published (1798) in New Haven. Nilliam Torrey Harris; and in 1909 the seventh edition—the New international—entirely remade, was published by Harris as editor-in-chief, and F. Sturges Allen who had been on the staff of the original International, as general editor. Joseph Emerson Worcester (1784-1865), a graduate of Yale in 1811 and Hawthorne's schoolmaster at Salem in 1813, afterward removed to Cambridge, where he came to be numbered among the eccentric characters of the place, and produced school books and books of refer
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)
olf, the (a play), 293 Wolf, F. A., 453, 460 Wolff, 282 Wolfskill, William, 138 Wollenweber, L. A., 582 Woman, the, 282 Woman in the case, the, 284 Woman in the wilderness, the, 573 Woman's way, a, 294 Woodberry, George E., 118, 129, 49: Woodbridge, F. J. E., 263 Woodbridge, Wm. C., 403, 407 Woods and Lakes of Maine, 162 Woolf, Benjamin, 271 Woolsey, T. D., 206, 361, 460, 461 Woolson, C. F., 86, 89 Woodmaston, Charles, 427 Worcester, Dean C., 166 Worcester, Joseph E., 475, 478 Words and their uses, 474 Words and their ways in English speech, 464 Wordsworth, 44, 109, 454, 456 Work, H. C., 497, 498 Workingman's advocate, the, 405, 436, 438 Workingman's Manual, 436 Workingman's political economy, the, 437 World (N. Y.), 44, 46, 322, 329, 330 World and the individual, the, 246, 247 Wren Shooting, the, 511 Wright, Chauncey, 230, 234-36, 237, 242, 244, 250 Wright, Frances, 436 Wright, H. B., 438 Writings of Albert Gallatin,