An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking : Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. : To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. : --Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. : To which is now added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues. / By Noah Webster, Jun. Esquire, author of "Dissertations on the English language," "Collection of essays and fugitive writings," &c.
| Author/creator |
Webster, Noah, 1758-1843 |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | Thomas and Andrews' fifth edition. With many corrections and improvements, by the author. [Two lines from Mirabeau]. |
| Publication Info | Printed at Boston : By Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. At Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street. Sold, wholesale and retail, at their bookstore; by said Thomas at his bookstore in Worcester, and by the booksellers in town and country, MDCCXCIV. [1794] |
| Description | 239 pages, 1 unnumbered page : 1 portrait ; 18 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
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| Uniform title | Grammatical institute of the English language. Part 3 |
| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 28041. ^A478749 |
| General note | First published under title: A grammatical institute of the English language ... part III. |
| General note | Errors in paging: p. 182, 192 misnumbered 184, 291. |
| General note | "The New York Public Library has also a variant copy, in which signature T is from Thomas and Andrews' fourth edition; this results in p. 227's ending with 'The Virtuous,' an eight-line poem, rather than the thirteen-line 'Prologue' which replaced it in this edition."--Skeel. |
| References | Evans 28041 |
| References | Skeel, E.E.F. Webster, 467 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 28041). |
| Genre/form | Readers. |
| Genre/form | Dialogues. |
| Genre/form | Poems 1794. |
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