An American selection of lessons in reading and speaking Calculated to improve the minds and refine the taste of youth. ; And also to instruct them in the geography, history, and politics of the United States. ; To which are prefixed, rules in elocution, and directions for expressing the principal passions of the mind. ; Being the third part of A grammatical institute of the English language. ; To which is added, an appendix, containing several new dialogues - Webster, Noah (by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews, at Faust's statue, no. 45, Newbury Street. Sold, wholesale and retail, at their bookstore; by said Thomas, in Worcester; and by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, in Baltimore.--, 1803)
"Contents."--p. 240. - "The introduction of Websters's Institute into all the public schools in the town of Boston ... has induced the subscribers to purchase the exclusive rights of printing all the three parts of said Institute, in the states of Massachusetts, Newhampshire and Rhodeisland, for the term of fourteen years. Correct editions of all three parts, with alterations and amendments, by the author, are kept always ready for sale ..."--Advertisement, verso of title page. - Copyright Oct. 7, 1790, by Isaiah Thomas and Ebenezer T. Andrews. - First published under title: A grammatical institute of the English language ... part III. - Frontispiece portrait of Noah Webster. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 5555. - Skeel, E.E.F. Webster, 503