Observations On Language And On The Errors Of Class Books Addressed To The Members Of The New York

by Noah Webster

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First edition

First edition. 39, 1 pp. 12mo. Publisher's stitched wrappers, upper wrapper chipped with minor losses. Minor foxing. Garner, Taming the Tongue 88; Sabin 102371; Skeel 716. Item #370306 Language, in man, is, next to reason, the grand characteristic by which he is distinguished from the brutes p. 3 . Webster's oration largely concerns the field of etymology, about which gives many examples, concluding

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