Observations on language, and on the errors of class-books
Subtitle: 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
By: By N. Webster
Contributors: Babcock, Sidney, 1797?-1884, publisher; New-York Lyceum; Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York
Publisher: Printed by S. Babcock
Published: 1839
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Subjects: Translating; English language; Etymology; Errors of usage; Commerce; Currency question; Political science; Philosophy; Bible
Other titles: Observations on language and commerce.; Observations on commerce, and the political condition of the United States.
Notes: Cover title: Observations on language and commerce.

"Having been requested by the Board of Directors of the New York Lyceum, and by the Directors of the Mercantile Library Association in that city, to deliver one or more lectures ... I have prepared the substance of what I should have delivered in lectures, had I been able to comply with the request, and now present my remarks to them in a pamphlet."--verso of title page.

Diacritical marks are printed with the letter "o" in certain words throughout the first essay.

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Table of contents: title: Observations on language; title: Observations on commerce, and the political condition of the United States.