Author: William FALCONER (Poet.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Mariner's Dictionary, Or American Seaman's Vocabulary of Technical Terms, and Sea Phrases ... Improved from an English Work [i.e. W. F.'s Marine Dictionary]. Illustrated, Etc
Author: William FALCONER (Poet.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Nineteenth-century Literature Criticism
Author: Laurie Lanzen Harris
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
Publisher:
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Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.
Are There Equinoctial Storms?
Author: John Harrison Morrison
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Category : Barometers
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : Barometers
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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The American Neptune
Author:
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A quarterly journal of maritime history.
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A quarterly journal of maritime history.
Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
Author: David Micklethwait
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
Beyond Horizons
Author: Carleton Mitchell
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Technical Americana
Author: Evald Rink
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
Publisher: Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Seventy-Four-Gun Ship
Author: Jean Boudriot
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
A Bibliography of Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Dealing with Military, Naval and Maritime Affairs, 1577-1961
Author: Hardin Craig
Publisher: Houston, Fondren Library, Rice University
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Houston, Fondren Library, Rice University
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description