Noah Webster Quotes - Page 4
"Peroration of the reply to Hayne", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 274-75, 1922.
Language, as well as the faculty of speech, was the immediate gift of God.
Noah Webster, Chauncey Allen Goodrich, Noah Porter (Jr.) (1854). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Containing the Whole Vocabulary of the First Edition in Two Volumes Quarto, the Entire Corrections and Improvements of the Second Edition in Two Volumes Royal Octavo, to which is Prefixed an Introductory Dissertation on the Origin, History, and Connexion, of the Languages of Western Asia and Europe, with an Explanation of the Principles on which Languages are Formed”, p.23
