Observations on Language, and on the Errors of Class-Books; addressed to the Members of the New York Lyceum. Also, Observations on Commerce, Addressed to the Members of the Mercantile Library Association, in New York.
New Haven: Printed by S. Babcock, 1839.
Price: $800.00
About the item
First edition. 39, [1]pp. 12mo. Publisher's stitched wrappers, upper wrapper chipped with minor losses. Minor foxing. Garner, Taming the Tongue 88; Sabin 102371; Skeel 716.
Item #370306
"Language, in man, is, next to reason, the grand characteristic by which he is distinguished from the brutes" (p. 3). Webster's oration largely concerns the field of etymology, about which gives many examples, concluding that the "evils proceeding from the improper use of words, are greater than men generally suppose" (p. 31). Scarce in commerce.
