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Among his early visits to American institutions, Dickens visited Perkins School for the Blind near Boston, where he met Laura Bridgman, who is considered the first deaf-blind person to receive a significant education in English. His account of this meeting in American Notes would inspire Helen Keller's parents to seek an education for their ...
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The 1828 edition of the American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse) can be searched online at: 1828.mshaffer.com; webstersdictionary1828.com; DjVu and PDF versions can be viewed at the Internet Archive: Volume 1 (includes words starting with A to I) Volume 2 (includes words starting with J to Z)
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
The 13 British North American provinces of Virginia, Massachusetts Bay, Maryland, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia united as the United States of America declare their independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on ...
Sarah, the oldest of seven kids, lives in rural Missouri. Her single mother has struggled to support the family and now Sarah faces an uncertain path. Sarah once dreamed of becoming a radiation ...
Catlin notices the Sioux are also both interested and apprehensive about his painting, saying that the women are particularly difficult to paint portraits of. He notes some Sioux chiefs (Ha-wan-je-tah and Shoo-de-ga-cha and wife) and writes about Sioux early marriages. [6] Some more aspects of Sioux life he learns about include: Indian vanity ...
Title page of America a Prophecy, copy A (printed 1793), collection the Morgan Library. America a Prophecy is a 1793 prophetic book by the English poet and illustrator William Blake. It is engraved on eighteen plates, and survives in fourteen known copies. It is the first of Blake's Continental prophecies. [1]