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A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings / On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects — Noah Webster

A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings / On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects

Noah Webster

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 384 pages

This 1790 collection gathers essays and shorter pieces by Noah Webster on moral, historical, political, and literary subjects. It offers a window into early American thinking about education, language, and government. Listeners drawn to the intellectual foundations of the United States will find it instructive.

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TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:

The headings in the table of contents do not always match the headings in the text. The subsections do not have their own heading, but refer to the page where the discussion of this topic starts.

The mistakes mentioned in the erratum list on page viii have all been incorporated in the text and are underlined with a grey line. Other corrections are underlined with a dotted line. The original text appears when the cursor is hovered over the marked text. A list of corrections to the text can be found at the end of the document.

A

COLLECTION of ESSAYS

AND

FUGITIV WRITINGS.

ON

MORAL, HISTORICAL, POLITICAL and LITERARY

SUBJECTS.

BY NOAH WEBSTER, JUN.

ATTORNEY AT LAW.

Heureuses les villes qui, comme les individus, n'ont point encore pris leur pli! Elles feules peuvent aspirer à des loix unanimes, profondes et sages.

TABLEAU DE PARIS.

PRINTED AT BOSTON, FOR THE AUTHOR,

BY I. THOMAS AND E. T. ANDREWS,

Aǵ FĵǼǪǵ'Ǫ SǵĵǵǼŧ, No. 45, Newbury Street.

MDCCXC.

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United States, 2 copies.
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Esq.
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Hawkins, Esq.
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Johnson, Esq.
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Contents

  1. A COLLECTION of ESSAYS AND FUGITIV WRITINGS.
  2. No. I.
  3. No. II
  4. No. III.
  5. No. IV.
  6. No. V.
  7. No. VI.
  8. No. VII.
  9. No. VIII.
  10. NO. IX.
  11. No. X.
  12. No. XI.
  13. No. XII.
  14. No. XIII.
  15. No. XIV.
  16. No. XV.
  17. No. XVI.
  18. No. XVII.
  19. No. XVIII.
  20. No. XIX.
  21. No. XX.
  22. No. XXI.
  23. No. XXII.
  24. No. XXIII.
  25. No. XXIV.
  26. NO. XXV.
  27. No. XXVI.
  28. No. XXVII.
  29. No. XXVIII.
  30. No. XXIX.

and 2 more chapters

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