"American Spelling Book" by Noah Webster (Repost)

The American Speller was used over the span of nearly a century and is considered to be the third-best selling book of all time in America. The Book also shows the ways a language can change in 200 years spelling

The book provides us an example of what Webster thought it important to tell young learners about morality (readers could decide to emulate the "good boy" or the "bad boy") and the principles of American government (members of Congress must be paid because otherwise "none but rich men could afford to serve as delegates," and "there are many men of little property, who are among the most able, wise and honest persons in a state").

Contents
Publisher's Preface
PREFACE
ANALYSIS OF SOUNDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Key to the following Work.
EXPLANATION OF THE KEY
An Easy Standard of Pronunciation
Easy words of two syllables, accented on the first.
Easy words of two syllables, accented on the second.
Easy words of three syllables: the full accent on the first, and a weak accent on the third.
Easy words of three syllables, accented on the second.
Easy words of three syllables, accented on the first and third.
Easy words of four syllables, the full accent on the first, and the half accent on the third.
Easy words of four syllables, accented on the second
Easy words of four syllables: full accent on the third, and the half accent on the first.
Difficult and irregular Monosyllables.
The following have the first sound of th, viz. as in thick, thin.
Examples of the formation of plurals, and other derivatives.
Lessons of easy words, to teach children to read, and to know their duty.
Words of two syllables accented on the first.
Words of two syllables, accented on the second.
Examples of words derived from their roots or primitives.
Words of Three Syllables, the full Accent on the First, and the half Accent on the Third.
Words of three syllables, accented on the second.
Words not exceeding three syllables, divided.
Words of four syllables, accented on the first.
Words of four syllables: the full accent on the second, and half accent on the fourth.
Words of five syllables: the full accent on the second
Words of five syllables accented on the first and third.
Our Savior's Golden Rule
Of the BOY that stole Apples.
The COUNTRY MAID and her MILK-PAIL.
The FOX and the SWALLOW.
The CAT and the RAT.
The FOX and the BRAMBLE.
The BEAR and the TWO FRIENDS.
TWO DOGS.
The Partial Judge.
The History of the Creation of the WORLD.
Examples of the formation of derivatives and compound words.
Irregular words, not comprised in the foregoing tables.
The most usual Names of Men, accented. Names of Women Derivatives from Names
Of Numbers.
Words, the same in sound, but different in spelling and signification.
Of the Pauses and other Characters used in Writino.
ADDITIONAL LESSONS
DOMESTIC ECONOMY
LESSONS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS
AMORAL CATECHISM
OF HUMILITY.
OF MERCY
OF PEACE-MAKERS.
OF PURITY OF HEART.
OF ANGER.
OF REVENGE
OF JUSTICE.
OF GENEROSITY.
OF GRATITUDE.
OF TRUTH.
OF CHARITY AND GIVING ALMS.
OF AVARICE.
OF FRUGALITY AND ECONOMY.
OF INDUSTRY
OF CHEERFULNESS.
Notes from Internet Publisher: Donald L. Potter
WHY NOAH WEBSTER'S WAY WAS THE RIGHT WAY
A Brief Summary of Webster's "Spelling Book" History

About author
Noah Webster (1758-1843) was the man of words in early 19th-century America. Compiler of a dictionary which has become the standard for American English, he also compiled The American Spelling Book, which was the basic textbook for young readers in early 19th-century America.
Webster's book, with its polysyllabic words broken into individual syllables and its precepts and fables, became the favorite. Revised several times by Webster, as the "blue-back speller" it taught generations of Americans how to read and how to spell.