Some Questions of Good English, Examined in Controversies With Dr. Fitzedward Hall;
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. . was born in London. {Ibid.) Hamilton, Sir William, Bart., . . . was bom in Glasgow. (Ibid.) Hamilton, Sir William Rowan, was born in Dublin. (Ibid.) Decamps, Alexander Gabriel, . . . was born in Paris. (Ibid.) The life of Edmund Spenser has few incidents and little certainty. He tells us he was born in 78 SOME QUESTIONS OF GOOD ENGLISH. London, near the Tower. . . — G. W. Kitchin, Introduction to " Book I. of The Faery Queene " (Oxford, 1881), p. v.* For the purpose of showing that a word o...r its employment is not peculiarly American, the quotations cited above are as good evidence as if they were taken from the writings of Cardinal Newman or Matthew Arnold. But Dr. Fitzedward Hall, in a letter pub- lished in the Academy, March 25, 1893, under the headline " The American Dialect," cites, as one among numerous examples of " indefensi- ble " Americanisms, this sentence: " Benjamin Franklin . . . was born in Boston." Dr. Hall brings forward this and many other quotations from an American schoolbook for the purpose of illustrating " locutions which go far to realize * " Johann Wolfgang Goethe, born at noon on the 28th August, 1749, in Frankfort-on-the-Main.
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