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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 10 0 Browse Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10 5 1 Browse Search
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 2. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 5 1 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 1. 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 4 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore) 3 3 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1862., [Electronic resource] 3 3 Browse Search
An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps. 3 3 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 1. (ed. Frank Moore) 2 0 Browse Search
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Browsing named entities in Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.). You can also browse the collection for Elliot or search for Elliot in all documents.

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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
d it is to be presumed that research, of which there has been far too little in this field, may establish the antiquity, if nothing more, of many other dialectical peculiarities. For the literary use of American dialects see Book III, Chap. V. There is not an oddity in the coarse, uncouth dialect of the Deerslayer and Hurry Harry (The Deerslayer, 1841) that has not its root deep in the soil of the eighteenth and preceding centuries. An interesting list of vulgar errors may be found in Elliot and Johnson's A selected pronouncing and accented Dictionary, Suffield [Conn.], 1800, p. 16. Cooper has Noah Webster's own creatur , ventur , f'erce. Sarpint, desarted, vartue, lamed, s'ile, app'inted, expl'ite can all be found recommended in grammars of the eighteenth century. The Oxford spelling Book (1726) says that sigh is pronounced sithe according to the common way of speaking, just as Natty Bumppo pronounces it. His ven'son is still good English. His consait (conceit), ginerous, fr