Hamilton, JAMES

Hamilton, JAMES, an English merchant, born at London in 1769, who, having been taught German at Hamburg in 1798 by an original method, afterwards exchanged mercantile pursuits for the teaching of languages, and taught with great success in the United States (from 1815) and in England (from 1823). He died at Dublin, 16th September 1829. Hamilton discarded grammar, using in its stead a literal word for word translation, placed immediately below the original, line for line alternately. His own account of it is to be found in The Principles, Practices, and Results of the Hamiltonian System (Manchester, 1829).