As we celebrate 250 years since Noah Webster's birth, here are a few remarks by Professor Jill Lepore (Harvard):
"Webster at 65 was a failed schoolmaster, a passable flutist, a lousy lawyer, an intriguing essayist, an inexhaustible lobbyist, a shrill editor, a pompous lecturer, and a man once dubbed "critick and coxcomb general of the United States. But he was undoubtedly also a prominent American citizen and to many Americans an eminent and admirable man of letters."
"Webster at 65 was a failed schoolmaster, a passable flutist, a lousy lawyer, an intriguing essayist, an inexhaustible lobbyist, a shrill editor, a pompous lecturer, and a man once dubbed "critick and coxcomb general of the United States. But he was undoubtedly also a prominent American citizen and to many Americans an eminent and admirable man of letters."
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