When we turn to Noah Webster we find him helpful as usual.

* 1828 – Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.

One particular contribution towards formalizing these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary ( published 1828 ) with the intention of showing that people in the United States spoke a different dialect from Britain, much like a regional accent.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

* 1793 – New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.

Another American admirer was lexicographer Noah Webster.

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* Noah Webster ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 )

Noah Webster painted by Samuel F. B. Morse

Noah Webster, Jr. ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 ), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Politician Daniel Webster was Noah Webster ’ s cousin.

The first major statutory revision of U. S. copyright law, the 1831 Act was a result of intensive lobbying by Noah Webster and his agents in Congress.

Noah Webster, The Schoolmaster of the Republic.

Noah Webster 4-cent United States Postal Service | United States stamp, 1958

On May 28, 1843, a few days after he had completed revising an appendix to the second edition, and with much of his efforts with the dictionary still unrecognized, Noah Webster died.

Rebecca Greenleaf Webster, wife of Noah Webster

Noah Webster married Rebecca Greenleaf ( 1766 – 1847 ) on October 26, 1789, New Haven, Connecticut.

* Bynack, Vincent P. " Noah Webster and the Idea of a National Culture: the Pathologies of Epistemology.

" Webster, Noah ," Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 10 ( 1936 )

Noah Webster and the American Dictionary ( 2005 )

* Morgan, John S. Noah Webster ( 1975 ), popular biography

It has been claimed that Paley was not a very original thinker and that the philosophical part of his treatise on ethics is “ an assemblage of ideas developed by others and is presented to be learned by students rather than debated by colleagues .” Nevertheless, his book The Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy ( 1785 ) was a required text at Cambridge and Smith says that Paley ’ s writings were “ once as well known in American colleges as were the readers and spellers of William McGuffey and Noah Webster in the elementary schools .” Although now largely missing from the philosophical canon, Schneewind writes that " utilitarianism first became widely known in England through the work of William Paley.

Born and raised in an Orthodox Jewish family, the son of Roy E. Feldman and Penny Hollander Feldman, Noah Feldman married Jeannie Suk, also a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and they have two children and live in Cambridge, Mass.

* Iraq History and Culture from the cradle of civilization and Noah to the present age and time

* Kramer, Samuel Noah ( 1988 ) History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History ( University of Pennsylvania Press ; 3rd edition ) ISBN 978-0-8122-1276-1

of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments ; Mackintosh's Progress of Ethical Philosophy ; Cousin, Cours d ' histoire de la philosophie morale du XVIII ' siècle ; Whewell's Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ; A Bain's Mental and Moral Science ; Noah Porter's Appendix to the English translation of Ueberweg's History of Philosophy ; Sir Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Gentury, etc.

“ Noah Porter Revisited ,” History of Higher Education Annual, 26 ( 2007 ), 29 – 66.

* The Secret History of Art by Noah Charney on the Vatican Library and Procopius.

In his book The Physician ( 1988 ) Noah Gordon tells the story of a young English medical apprentice who disguises himself as a Jew to learn from Avicenna, the great master of his time.

The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster 1836 edition online, the famous Blue-Backed Speller

Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster, who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English.

* Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary.

Linguistically, in developing American English, in the early editions of A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language ( 1806 ), lexicographer Noah Webster suggested the neger new spelling in place of negro.

Aside from this extended epic " The Descent of Inanna ," a previously unknown " Courtship of Inanna and Dumuzi " was first translated into English and annotated by Sumerian scholar Samuel Noah Kramer and folklorist Diane Wolkstein working in tandem, and published in 1983.

* Noah Cato ( born 1988 ), English rugby union player

Joined by Myau, a talking cat, Odin, once a member of Nero's rebellion, and the Esper magician Noah ( Lutz in the Japanese version and further English games ), Alis embarks on an adventure spanning all three planets.

The first translation of the 1625 Venice edition into English was that published by Mordecai Manuel Noah and A. S. Gould in 1840.

He translated it into English and, in 1839, sold it to Mordecai Manuel Noah.

In 1828, at the age of 70, Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language ( ADEL ) in two quarto volumes containing 70, 000 entries, as against the 58, 000 of any previous dictionary.

In 1841, 82-year-old Noah Webster published a revised and expanded edition of his lexicographical masterpiece in two volumes, a 2nd Edition, Corrected and Enlarged of the American Dictionary of the English Language, with the help of his son, William G. Webster.

Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but without the literary references.

One such revision was Webster's Imperial Dictionary, based on John Ogilvie's The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, itself an expansion of Noah Webster's American Dictionary.

However, Merriam-Webster revisionists find solid ground in Noah Webster's concept of the English language as an ever-changing tapestry.

Noah Webster's main competitor was a man named Joseph Emerson Worcester, whose 1830 Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language brought accusations of plagiarism from Webster.

This is a digitization of the last edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language that Noah Webster made before his death – the same edition that Edward Dickinson bought for the family library in 1844.