On the Word "raised" as used by the Americans.
—An American, in answer to an inquiry as to the place of his birth, says, "I was raised in New York," &c. Was it ever an English phrase? And if so, by what English writer of celebrity was it ever used? Dr. Franklin, in a letter to John Alleyne, Esq., Aug. 9, 1768, says:
"By these early marriages we are blest with more children; and from the mode among us, founded in nature, of every mother suckling and nursing her own child, more of them are raised."
JAMES CORNISH.
Contradiction: D'Israeli and Hume.—
"Rousseau was remarkably trite in conversation."—Essay on Literary Character, vol. i. p. 213.
"Rousseau, in conversation, kindles often to a degree of heat which looks like inspiration."
Quoted by D'Israeli in the same vol., p. 230.
JAMES CORNISH.