TITLES. <3l 



applied to deputy governors, Speakers of Senates 

 and General Courts, Chancellors, the members of 

 the higher Judicatories, jMembers of Congress and 

 State Senators ; and now and then you observe 

 the Worshipful members of Corporations and 

 County Courts dropping their appropriate titles, 

 and taking a seat among the Honorabhs of the 

 land. Esquire is applied to the magistracy iu 

 general, and to the members of the bar. Some- 

 times His Excellency and The Honorable are in- 

 vested with this magnificent appendage in order 

 to lengthen out an Alexandrine line of mighty 

 honors. Everj^ man who practices physic or sur- 

 gery, or undertakes to tinker in any way the hu- 

 man body, is called Doctor. Even the village 

 apothecary and cwller of simples ; and then Gen- 

 tleman is most liberally applied to the Dii minorum 

 of this title-loving people, who seem to be anxious 

 to keep constantly out of view the distich of old 

 Chaucer, 



<• When Adam delv'd and Eve span, 

 Then there was no gentleman." 



Mr. Granger informs me that at the first esta- 

 blishment of the present national government a 

 strenuous attempt was made to introduce high 

 sounding titles. It was proposed to style the Pre- 

 sident, His Serene Highness — the Vice President, 



His Highness — Senators, The Right Honorable^—' 

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