...language as well as a national government." By way of enforcing his advice, he there also writes, " As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system 382 383 of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose...

...upon was of the greatest importance to the future of his country. "As an independent nation," he says, "our honor requires us to have a system of our own in language as well as in government." Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, had been based on the authority of English...

...the university; London, 1855. For Gifford see the Quarterly, Jan., 1814, p. 528. •Vol. i, p. vi. As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government." Long before this the challenge had been flung. Scarcely two years after the Declaration of Independence...

...us seize the present moment, and establish a national language as well as a national government ... As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government". Nor has this spirit died out: in 1920 Mr. Rupert Hughes (quoted on p. 23 f.) wrote: "Why should we...

...Furthermore, national solidarity was required in order that we might command the respect of other nations : "Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government." 2 We were sufficiently isolated from Europe to develop this medium of expression with comparatively...

...Furthermore, national solidarity was required in order that we might command the respect of other nations: "Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government." 2 We were sufficiently isolated from Europe to develop this medium of expression with comparatively...

...present moment, and establish a national language, as well as a national government." Webster felt that "Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard." He did not contend that the United States should invent some entirely new tongue for herself, but rather...

...serve better than anything else to make his attitude clear. AM an independent nation [he declares], our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as in government. Great Britain, whose children we are and whose language we speak, should no longer be...

...central government. In his Dissertations on the English Language 20 (1st ed., Boston, 1789), he wrote: "As an independent nation, our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government." Webster's twin concerns culminated in the publication of An American Dictionary of the English Language...

...independence: "As an independent nation," he said in Dissertations on the English Language (1789), "our honor requires us to have a system of our own,...already corrupted, and her language on the decline."'' Webster's views, though put into practice by Barlow in The Columbiad, were by no means universal. The...