Noah Webster: American Men of LettersScudder, Horace Elisha
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Noah Webster: American Men of Letters
Scudder, Horace Elisha
Educators -- United States -- Biography; Lexicographers -- United States -- Biography; Webster, Noah, 1758-1843
Hartford, 1;
N. W. teaches school at, 9;
a village only, 13;
North Church in, 48.
Hartford Convention, N. W.'s part in, 146.
Hartford Wits, The, 97, 104.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, and N. W. compared, 289.
Hazard, Ebenezer, 68, 75;
his opinion of N. W., 79;
dealings with him, as brought out in correspondence with Belknap,
80, 94.
Hillard, George Stillman, quoted, 22.
"History of New Hampshire," Belknap's, 69, 75, 76.
"History of the United States," by N. W., 277.
Holst, H. Von, quoted, 116.
Ingersoll, Mr., representative from Connecticut, 62.
Izard, Ralph, 55.
Jackson, Andrew, election of, 145.
Jay's Treaty defended by N. W., 137, 143.
Jefferson, Thomas, 119, 132;
his opinion of N. W.'s anonymous work, 137;
his address attacked by N. W., 144.
Johnson, Samuel, the Magnus Apollo of Lexicographers, 218;
criticised by N. W., 219-225;
N. W.'s preface compared with S. J.'s, 242;
his Dictionary and N. W.'s compared, 246, 260-263, 273.
Jonas, Mr. Jacob Abbott's, a type, 14.
Kent, Chancellor, 137.
King, Rufus, 137, 138.
Language, a national, 202.
Lawyers in Connecticut, 18.
Lee, Charles, 6.
"Letter on the Value and importance of the American Commerce of Great
Britain, addressed to a Gentleman of Distinction in London, A," by
N. W., 142.
"Letter to the Governors," N. W.'s, quoted, 44.
Litchfield, N. W. reads law at, 9.
Livingston, Governor, of New Jersey, on copyright laws, 53, 83.
Lodge, H. C., quoted, 137.
Lord's Almanac, 25.
Lowth's "Short Introduction to the English Grammar," 41.
Lyman, Joseph, and the Hartford Convention, 146.
McFingal, Trumbull's, 102.
Madison, James, 55;
his correspondence with N. W., 114;
his connection with the French party, 132.
Mahn, Dr., 260.
Mansfield, Lord, on copyright laws, 61.
"Manual of Useful Studies" by N. W., 278.
Massachusetts legislature in connection with copyright laws, 55.
Massachusetts Magazine, The, 89.
Mein, John, and his bookstore, 22.
Mile stones and bridges, requiring toll from belles, 11.
Military life in New England, 20.
Miller, Ashur, N. W.'s class-mate, 4.
Miller v. Taylor, case of, 6.
"Minerva, American," N. W.'s paper, 130;
amount of work done on it by N. W., 142.
Mirabeau, quoted by N. W. 47.
Monarch, The, a title given to N. W. by two of his contemporaries, 79, 115.
Neutrals, N. W. on, 142-144.
New England in its educative influences, 12.
New England Primer, The, as a work of art, 40.
New Haven, visited by Washington and Lee, 6.
New Jersey in connection with copyright laws, 53, 55.
New Rochelle, 12.
Newspaper, the, in N. W.'s youth, 24;
its condition when he engaged in it, 111.
"New York Commercial Advertiser," 130.
New York legislature in connection with copyright laws, 54.
Orthography, N. W.'s supposed innovations in, 245-254.
Otis, Harrison Gray, 146.
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