RE: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster

Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:05:57 -0800

Just his way of being a MCCarthyITE

ShieldsFamily <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hatred??? Not in the least. Just good sense IMO.  Where you “live” looks like hell to me. iz
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster
 
Do you still harbor that much hatred? Sad!
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Sent: March 25, 2006 07:35
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Funny, my ex-husband referred to Christianity as “fantasyland”.  I told him I’d rather live in “fantasyland” than in hell with him.  Same to you and your belief system, I guess. iz
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:33 AM
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No wonder you favour homeschooling! Hello fantasyland. Did you build a bunker and stock it with survivalist gear? Is it coffee that you wake up to smell or the odour of decaying infrastructure?
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Sent: March 25, 2006 07:28
Subject: RE: [TruthTalk] Noah Webster
 
More liberal negativism and fear mongering.  Wishing evil upon one’s neighbor. This is nasty fruit that turns the stomach and repels the Holy Spirit. I’m not denying that such may happen, but only Screwtape and Wormwood should be cheering it on from the sidelines. iz
 
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lance Muir
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:24 AM
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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.
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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."
  • "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.
 
 

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