Then all we will have left is something akin to Canada, what a scary thought
--- Lance Muir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most on TT will live to see the implosion of the USA. At what point > will you declare bankruptcy. You don't have the option of moving out > of your old house and into a new one. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ShieldsFamily > To: [email protected] > Sent: March 25, 2006 07:13 > Subject: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Webster > > > > As a teacher, he had come to dislike American elementary schools. > They could be overcrowded, with up to seventy children of all ages > crammed into one-room schoolhouses, poorly staffed with untrained > teachers, and poorly equipped with no desks and unsatisfactory > textbooks which came from England. Webster thought that Americans > should learn from American books, so he began writing a three volume > compendium, A Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The work > consisted of a speller (published in 1783), a grammar (published in > 1784), and a reader (published in 1785). His goal was to provide a > uniquely American, Christ-centered approach to training children. > > The speller was originally entitled The First Part of the > Grammatical Institute of the English Language. The title was changed > in 1786 to The American Spelling Book, and again in 1829 to The > Elementary Spelling Book. Most people called it the "Blue-Backed > Speller" because of its blue cover, and for the next one hundred > years, Webster's book taught children how to read, spell, and > pronounce words. It was the most popular American book of its time; > by 1861, it was selling a million copies per year, and its royalty of > less than one cent per copy was enough to sustain Webster in his > other endeavors. Even Ben Franklin used Webster's book to teach his > granddaughter how to read. > > > > Noah was generally known to be Christian. It is reported that Noah > Webster's 1828 American Dictionary contains the greatest number of > Biblical definitions given in any reference volume. Webster > considered "education useless without the Bible." > > a.. "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and > one of the first things in which all children, under a free > government ought to be instructed...No truth is more evident to my > mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any > government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free > people." (Preface to the 1828 edition of Webster's American > Dictionary of the English Language ) > Besides his dictionary, Webster also released his own translation > of the Bible in 1833. In doing the translation, Webster used the King > James Version as a base. He consulted the Hebrew and Greek along with > various other versions and commentaries. > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
