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Title: Noah Webster
American Men of Letters

Author: Horace E. Scudder

Editor: Charles Dudley Warner

Release Date: February 9, 2010 [EBook #31238]

Language: English

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American Men of Letters.

EDITED BY

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.

[Illustration: N. Webster]

American Men of Letters.

NOAH WEBSTER.

BY

HORACE E. SCUDDER.

[Illustration]

BOSTON:
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.
NEW YORK: 11 EAST SEVENTEENTH STREET.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1890.

Copyright, 1881,
BY HORACE E. SCUDDER.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

CONTENTS.

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Page
CHAPTER I.
EARLY LIFE 1

CHAPTER II.
THE GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE 33

CHAPTER III.
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER 52

CHAPTER IV.
POLITICAL WRITINGS 111

CHAPTER V.
EXCURSIONS 150

CHAPTER VI.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE DICTIONARY 182

CHAPTER VII.
AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 235

CHAPTER VIII.
CONCLUSION 277

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Acknowledgment is due to Mr. Gordon L. Ford, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for the
valuable assistance which he has rendered by permitting the author to
make use of his admirable collection of pri