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Noah Webster
An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking
Boston, 1794
An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking
Boston, 1794
In the choice of pieces, I have been attentive to the political interests of
America. I consider it as a capital fault in all our schools, that the books
generally used, contain subjects wholly uninteresting to our youth...
Choosing books not just wisely and well, but prescriptively became
increasingly common throughout the 19th century.
—From the Preface
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