William Dwight Whitney

I quote the words with which the first great American scholar of language, William Dwight Whitney (1827-1894), began an immense article on philology for the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

Is Locke the Key? Hacking, Ian 1982

William Dwight Whitney, who had been made Professor of Sanskrit at Yale in 1854, emerged as America's first great Orientalist.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas CARL T. JACKSON 1968

While he was in the United States, William Dwight Whitney, America's preeminent orientalist, did all that he could to persuade Hall to remain at home, but he could not prevail.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 3 1993

William Dwight Whitney, the foremost nineteenth-century American linguist, gives the science of language a Janus face when he characterizes his own study, The Life and Growth of Language, as one that "strives to

Mark Twain's Languages 1987

Work on the Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, under the direction of William Dwight Whitney, was under way at the same time as the compilation of the OED was going on, and the editors of the latter (shamelessly?) copied entire definitions from the former: there is no doubt that the OED was thereby enhanced and improved, and, in general, I think it ridiculous to be enjoined from copying an occasional definition from another work -- particularly if it is out of copyright or if permission has been given -- especially if there is no other way of wording something simply.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2 1991

The Century Dictionary The Century Dictionary was especially fortunate in having as its editor-in-chief William Dwight Whitney

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VIII No 2 1981

Boston Public Library PURCHASED FROM THE William Dwight Whitney MEMORIAL FUND ESTABLISHED BY James Lyman Whitney BIBLIOGRAPHER AND SOMETIME LIBRARIAN

Aesopi Phrigis Et Aliorvm Fabvlae. : Elegantissimis Iconibus illustratæ, & diligentius quàm antehac emendatæ Burns, John William, fl. 1883, former owner 1554