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WEBS TER'S
QUARTO DICTIONARY,
UNABRIDGED.
SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.
Published by G. ~ c. MERRIAM,
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.
FROM DANIEL WEBSTER.
possess many Dictionaries, and of most ofthe
learned and cultivated languages, ancient and
modern; but never feel that am entirely ann
ed an equipped, in this respect, without Dr.
Webster ut command.
DAN. WEBSTER.
FROM RUFUS CHoATE.
IEssRs. q. d. Z. MERRIAM. Gentlemen I
have just had the hCnor OF receiving the noble
volume in which you and the great photographer
and the accomplished reviser. unite your lnbors
20 IBID the language live accept it with the
highest prdo and pleasure. and beg to adopt, in
Is utmost strength and extent, the testimonial
Of Daniel Webster.
RUFUS CHOATE.
FROM JOHN C. sPEECER.
PROFESSIONALLY the very bust Dictionary in
our Language cXtant It's great accuracy Ia the
lhe definition and derivation Cf words gives il
IN authority that no other work ON the subject
possesses. tits constantly cited and relied on in
nur courts Of Justice in cur legislative bodies,
and in public discussions, AZ entirely conclusive.
JOHN C. SPENCER.
FROM ELIHU rURRITT.
Webster's great dictionary may be regarded "a
bearing the same relation to the English language
which NewtOn's Principia does to the sublime
EtinU BURRrTT.
FROM REV. DR. HUNTINGTON. OF HARVARD
UNIVERSITY,
We are moro than ever impressed with its
great compass and value. No student M il an
pears to us, has access to the needful resources
Tor understanding or using cur native tongue.
who docs not keep this vust and rich rerositorv
Of pathological labor and learning at his side
Its defhil lions now almost universally acknOwl-
edged to be unrivnled for completeness and accu
racy, and the avoidnhce Of mere svnonyms--to-
gether with some of its other features lender /.
indispensable in every Library und at every vii
ting desk. F. D. HUNTINGTON.
FROM PROF PHELPS, THE0. SEM. ANDOvER,
His work fills place in our literature which il
occupied ny no other. No professional uan can
afford to dispense with it. ii ne aims M ,onniI
scholarship in his knowiedge Of the English
tongue AUSTIN PHELPS.
FRcM HON. A. sMYTT, STATE SUPERfNTENp-
ENr ELECT OF SCHOOLS OF OHIO.
COLUMBUS. o., Feb. %, 1856.
Being from CONVICTION Webster man
A. SMYTH.
FROM PRESIDENT HOPKINS, WILLIAMS COZ.
LEGE.
There Is no American scholar who does not
| feel proud Of the labors of Dr.. Webster, as the
piorecr Of LeSicognphy on this continent and
who will not readily admit the great and distinct
ivo merits of his Dictionary.
MARK HOPKINS.
FROM JOHN C. WHITTIER.
| The best and safest g1idc at the students of
our language. JOHN G. WHITTIER.
FROM F!Tz GREENE HALLEcK.
| Of the book itself hear but one Opinion from
all around ne, and do bat echo the universal
voice in expressing my approval of Its great
worth. and my belief that il has rendered anv
further research, OF even improvement. in our
time, unnecessary in It's department Of irsiruc-
ton. FlTZ GREENE IIALLECK.
FROM JOHN G. SAKE,
| BURLINGTON. VT, March 90. 1874.
lam one Of those who have always been p,oud
of Mr.. Webster as a learned PhioloriSt. By his
aborS as photographer. lie has done more than
all onr writers TO give character and nationality
to American literature. In no restect can bia
dictionary be regarded as deterrent while in tbe
department Of EtymoIogy-the only part of a
lexicon requiring great labor and profound cru
diton- lie is. by common confession of scholars.
without rival either in this country or In En-,
rope. JOHN q SAVE
Also. Webster's School Dictionaries. npbl;,b-
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