Word: esq
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noah Webster, jun., esq. (as he signed himself, to the ribald delight of his lighter-minded contemporaries) was too ambitious to be tripped by ridicule. In the era of vacillating reconstruction after the Revolution he saw his didactic chance, made it his patriotic duty. He launched his first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse...
...acknowledge receiving from John Jacques Hughes Esq. $350.00 for the drawing of the Revd. John Harvard of Harvard College...
...notice on p. 41 of your issue dated Feb. 5, under Medicine referring to the "Case of George Washington, Esq." the following statement...
...CASE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ...
Then Oswald was alarmed by evidences or healing in his carefully prepared breach. Dr. Franklin was a violent Francophile; he let it be known that he was a violent Francophile. Richard Oswald, Esq., grew alarmed. Daily his sedan waited before Franklin's lodgings in Paris, the emissary pressed harder for settlement. Mr. Jay reasoned, and delayed. Mr. Adams fumed, and delayed. Dr. Franklin told stories, between twinges of gout, and delayed. Mr. Oswald ceded to the colonies all the land to the Father of Waters. October, in process of time, became November; Dr. Franklin became more friendly with le Comte...