Noah Webster

1758 – 1843

Noah Webster (1758-1843) was an ardent Federalist, lexicographer, and political writer in the early American republic.

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The Romans had a celebrated festival, called Saturnalia in honor of Saturn; this festival found its way into antient Scandinavia, among our pagan ancestors, by whom it was new-modelled or corrupted, being kept at the winter solstice.…

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