Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Sequel to Webster's Elementary Spelling Book, or a Speller and Definer: Containing a Selection of 12, 000 of the Most Useful Words in the English Language, With Their Definitions, Intended to Be Used as a Spelling Book and a Dictionary
Dear sir: Your little work has fallen into my hands, and I have looked it over with much interest. It seems to me to be just such a work as was greatly needed in our primary schools. It is hardly ex travagant to say that the great business of school education' 18 to acquire a knowledge of words and of their accurate and precise signification; for, he who knows all the words in his native language, and understands the precise meaning of each word, has at command all the knowledge of which his language is the vehicle; and I regard it as a wise educa tichal measure to begin, at the earliest practicable period in the process bf education, to make children acquainted with the exact meaning of the words which they learn to spell.
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