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Horace Elisha Scudder. Noah Webster

Noah Webster

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NOAH WEBSTER

CHAPTER I

EARLY LIFE

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CHAPTER II

THE GRAMMATICAL INSTITUTE

CHAPTER III

AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER

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CHAPTER IV

POLITICAL WRITINGS

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CHAPTER V

EXCURSIONS

CHAPTER VI

PREPARATION FOR THE DICTIONARY

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CHAPTER VII

AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

CHAPTER VIII

CONCLUSION

INDEX

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Horace Elisha Scudder

American Men of Letters

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The minister again represented to the young New Englander the highest expression of human attainment. He was righteous and he was learned. Learning he had in a severe and lofty form, and though there was little in his outward dress to mark him as a priest of God, he was isolated from the community by his authority and profession, so that he answered rather to one's conception of a prophet. Before him were brought offenders against Sabbath decorum, and the minister's study was to the boy the most awful room into which he could enter. This association of learning with piety served to heighten still further the respect with which learning was regarded, and to separate the young student almost by a special laying on of hands. The minister also usually had his glebe, and held a common interest with the farmers of the neighborhood—a humanizing relation which had much to do in preserving the real respect in which he was held. The positive influence of religion upon life, by being identified with the highest intellectualism and the most eminent persons, had thus both its strength and weakness. There was wanting the large and comprehensive spirit of an historic church; there was the peril of a too abstract regard for religion; but on the other hand there was a very strong stimulus to individualism. No one with any force of character could grow up under these influences without being vigorously affected by them.

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