The truth in their conflicting concepts was expounded by statesmen of the calibre of Webster and Calhoun, and defended in the end by leaders of the nobility of Lincoln and Lee.

The reception was held in a private dining room of the Webster Hotel on Lincoln Park West.

A lawyer, hired by the college, was arguing specifically for Dartmouth: Daniel Webster, class of 1801, made her plight the dramatic focus of his whole plea.

Earlier in the year, Alison Wakefield married Kevin Webster after discovering she was pregnant with his child.

On Christmas Day 2009, Sally Webster told husband Kevin that she had breast cancer, just as he was about to leave her for lover Molly.

In the 20th century, Theosophy was further developed by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater, while people like Alice Bailey, Rudolf Steiner and many others, became the source for a whole range of post-theosophical movements such as The Summit Lighthouse.

Another American admirer was lexicographer Noah Webster.

The college was founded by a Confederate veteran, Major Reuben Webster Millsaps in 1889-90 by the donation of the college's land and $ 50, 000.

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

Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, to an established Yankee family.

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.

His father had mortgaged the farm to send Webster to Yale, but the son was now on his own and had no more to do with his family.

Webster was by nature a revolutionary, seeking American independence from the cultural thralldom to Britain.

From 1787 to 1789 Webster was an outspoken supporter of the new Constitution.

" Webster, the consummate master of words, was distressed.

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.

The appropriate standard for the American language, argued Webster, was " the same republican principles as American civil and ecclesiastical constitutions.

Its royalty of a half-cent per copy was enough to sustain Webster in his other endeavors.

Webster in early life was something of a freethinker, but in 1808 he became a convert to Calvinistic orthodoxy, and thereafter became a devout Congregationalist who preached the need to Christianize the nation.

In 1822, the family moved back to New Haven, and Webster was awarded an honorary degree from Yale the following year.

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.

The Steelers ' success on offense was due in large measure to their stellar offensive line, anchored by future hall of fame center Mike Webster

He next joined Benjamin Webster at the Haymarket as stage-manager as well as actor.

She managed the Lyceum Theatre with her husband from 1844 to 1847 ; acted with Benjamin Webster and Charles Kean at the Haymarket ; returned for five years to the Adelphi ; and made her last regular public appearance at the Lyceum in 1859.

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.

Scott-Elliot's information came from the clairvoyant Charles Webster Leadbeater.

California State Route 61 runs down city streets from the Posey and Webster Street Tubes, across the Bay Farm Island Bridge, and south to the Oakland Airport.

He read an unabridged dictionary ( the 13th edition of Webster ’ s ) through, word for word, studying not only the definitions of the words but also their derivations from ancient languages.

Dartmouth alumni, from Daniel Webster to the many donors in the 19th and 20th centuries, have been famously involved in their college.

Geddy, along with his band mates played and sang along with Max Webster on the song " Battle Scar " from the Universal Juveniles ( 1980 ) album.

Among prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown.

Webster lacked firm career plans after graduating from Yale in 1778, later writing that a liberal education " disqualifies a man for business ".

Proceeds from continuing sales of the popular blue-backed speller enabled Webster to spend many years working on his famous dictionary.

Webster thought that Americans should learn from American books, so he began writing a three volume compendium, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language.

Webster acquired his perspective on language from such theorists as Maupertuis, Michaelis, and Herder.

Letter from Webster to daughter Eliza, 1837, warning of perils of the abolitionist movement

* Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., ed., Noah Webster: On Being American ( 1967 ), selections from his writings

The song acted as both a transition from Max Webster to Rush, as well as a warm-up for Peart.

In addition to Coaches Noll and Landry, 14 players would end up being voted into the Hall of Fame: Nine Pittsburgh players: Bradshaw, Harris, Swann, Stallworth, Webster, Greene, Lambert, Ham, and Blount, and five from Dallas: Staubach, Dorsett, White, Wright, and Jackie Smith, who the Cowboys lured out of retirement from the St. Louis Cardinals due to injuries to Cowboy tight ends, most notably, Jay Saldi.

According to Webster, the word's origin is Middle English, injury, from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin tortum, from Latin, neuter of tortus twisted, from past participle of torquēre

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.

* Daniel Webster, U. S. senator from Massachusetts