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a name utterly unfit for the probationary date of us poor 
mortals; and Mr. Dogood never troubled himfelf about 
benefiting any-body. Mrs. Clackitt has been dumb from 
her infancy; while Mrs. Mum (tuns the company with 
her redundancy of words. 
“ How often have we feen men of the name of Tailor, 
Ihoemakers by trade—ftrange abfurdity ! However, Mr. 
Proudfoot is allowed to be an excellent bootmaker. The 
Mift'es Lovejoy are the dull eft old maids in the univerfe. 
Mrs. Sable never wore mourning above once in her life. 
Mrs. Simper always frowns; Mifs Raven tings like a 
nightingale; Mr. Bloom is a fwarthy Creole; and Mrs. 
Nield never prays. Mr. Popwell never fired a gun. Mr. 
Barwell thould have been an ironmonger inftead of a 
nabob; but, if he was originally a waiter at a tavern, the 
name is not amils, as it may remind him of former times. 
Mr. Street lives in a court. Mr. Foot cannot Hand. Mr. 
Golightly is very lufty. Mr. Hazard never games. Mr. 
Pye thould have been a paftry-cook inftead of poet-lau- 
reat. Mr. Suett ought to have been a butcher inftead of 
an aftor. Mr. Goodluck has had various misfortunes. 
There is a grocer named Pickle; Mrs. Coates very pro¬ 
perly keeps a habit-warehoufe ; and Mr. Ganer got rich 
by his piano-fortes. Mr. Prettiman is deformed. Mr. 
Brewer is a baker. Mr. Baker is a mercer. Mr. Wit- 
worth never faid a good thing. Mr. Bent is as ftraight as 
any man in Europe. Mifs Prim is all eafe and elegance. 
Mr. Prig is a plain unaffeCted man. Mr. Page is illiterate. 
Mr. Crilp is as tough as hemp. Mr. Stone fhould have been 
a mafon. Mr. Shepherd has no cattle to take care of. Mr. 
Diamond is an aftor. Mr. Mafon was an admirable poet. 
What incongruities! Mifs Piper has no ear for mufic. 
Mifs Joiner is a fawyer’s daughter. Mrs. Beard is bald. 
Mrs. Singer cannot turn a tune. Mrs. Peacock warbles 
inimitably. Mifs Tombs hates the idea of a church-yard, 
•&c. &c. See. 
“ Blackwell, however, has been famous for thefe fifty 
years as the belt maker of printers' ink in London. There 
was one Cooper, but he was not fit to make tubs for the 
other’s ink. As for Grey ham, his black ink was very 
apt to turn yellow. Some printers are cunning enough to 
make their own ink : one of thefe is Ben-Sly. 
“ Hazard is an excellent name for a lottery-office 
keeper; fuch as depend upon Goodluck will leldom be 
Wright. Even Pope is not infallible. 
“ Mr. Allchin, who lives not a hundred miles from 
Warwick-lane, has certainly much degenerated from his 
anceftors, and would be better delignated by the name of 
Smallchin. —Mr. Servant, his neighbour, is aihamed of his 
origin, and choofes to be called Servant. Yet the addi¬ 
tion of an e (Servante) denotes a defeent from a French 
abigail. — Some of the Smiths forge their names into 
Smythe ; and Anvil is poliffied into Envil, or Enville.- — 
Yet we have ftill AnneJs, which fignifies a Jhe-afs, in 
Cheapfide ; and alinoft oppofite, two partners of the name 
of Idle ftare us in the face ; how elegantly and claffically 
might this be changed into Idyl! 
“ Alas ! the names of places want reformation too; 
for Cheapfide is a very dear place ; Fetter-lane is within 
the freedom of the city; Angel-court, Nightingale-lane, 
certainly is not the moft angelic or melodious place in 
the world; the Serpentine-river is perfeCily ftraight; a 
court, with perhaps more angles than any other in the 
metropolis, is called Round-court ; a cinder-heap at the 
bottom of Gray’s-Inn-lane, Mount PleaJ’ant ; a dirty lane, 
fo narrow that there is hardly room to turn a wheel¬ 
barrow in it, is baptifed Wefton Park; a crofis ftreet in 
the city, containing fix or eight lioufes. Tower Royal ; 
and the rage for imitating the French has given the name 
ot Thanet Place to a little court in the Strand. Jukes 
upon Names; Britannic Mag. Aug. 1803. 
NAME,J. The term by which any kind of fpecies is 
diftinguifhed.—If every particular idea that we take in 
ihould have a diftinct name, names mult be endlefs. Locke. 
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What’s in a name? That which we call a rofe, 
By any other name would fmell as fweet. Shakefpeare. 
Perfon: 
They lift with women each degenerate name 
Who dares not hazard life for future fame. Dryden. 
Reputation; character.—The king’s army was the laft 
enemy the weft had been acquainted with, and had left 
no good name behind. Clarendon. —Renown ; fame; cele¬ 
brity; eminence; praife; remembrance; memory; dif- 
tinftion ; honour.—Vifit eminent perl'ons of great name 
abroad; to tell how the life agreeth with the fame. 
Bacon's EjJ'ays. —Bartolus is of great name; whofe au¬ 
thority is as much valued amongft the modern lawyers, 
as Papinian’s was amongft the ancients. Baker on Learn¬ 
ing. 
What men of name refort to him ? 
Sir Walter Herbert, a renowned foldier; 
And Rice ap Thomas with a valiant crew, 
And many others of great name and worth. Shakefp. 
Here reft thy bones in rich Helperia’s plains, 
Thy name, ’tis all a ghoft can have, remains. Dryden. 
A hundred knights 
Approv’d in fight, and men of mighty name. Dryden. 
Power delegated; imputed character.—In the name of 
the people, and in the power of us the tribunes, we 
baniffi him. ShakeJpeare's Coriol. —Fictitious imputation : 
When Ulyffes with fallacious arts 
Had forg’d a treafon in my patron’s name, 
My kinfman fell. Dryden's jEneid. 
Appearance; not reality; afl'umed character.—I’ll to him 
again in the name of Brook ; he’ll tell me all his purpofe. 
Shakefpeure's M. W. of Wind for.—'There is a friend which 
is only a friend in name , Fcclus. —An opprobrious appel¬ 
lation : 
The liufband 
Bids her confefs ; calls her ten thoufand names; 
In vain the kneels. Granville. 
Name of Jesus. Thefe words ftand in our almanacs 
aga'inft the 7th of Auguft. In fome almanacs we have 
feen this day marked for notice by the title of the Nati¬ 
vity of Jesus ; whence fome have argued that our re¬ 
formers meant to point it out as the true period of the 
birth of our Saviour, although they had not thought 
proper to difturb the ancient ufage of the church as to 
the time of celebrating that moft happy event. It is of 
little importance either way; for it is very remarkable 
that we have no evidence, or even tradition, as to what 
time of the year our Saviour was born. The moft pro¬ 
bable opinion (according to Brady) feems to be, that it 
took place during the feaft of tabernacles, which began 
on the 15th day of the feventh month, Tizri, anfwering 
to our OCtober. 
By the Englifh Liturgy in ufe before the conqueft, it 
appears, that the church anciently included her devotion 
to the Name of Jefus in her general i'ervice on the feaft of 
the circumcifion, that appellation having been given to 
our Lord, as directed by the angel, when he fubmitted to 
that rite. At fubfequent periods, the l'econd Sunday 
after the Epiphany was appointed exprefsly for that cere¬ 
mony, with particular offices confidered appropriate to 
the occafion. Our reformers annulled the offices, as fiu- 
perftitious and unnecefl'ary; but, out of refpeCt to efta- 
bliffied ulage, retained the name of the feftival, which 
they removed from the l'econd Sunday in Epiphany to 
this day, expunging for that purpofe the anniverfary of 
St. Donatus, which was before held on the 7th of Auguft, 
and which had, fome time prior, been made the fubftitute 
for the anniverfary of St. Afra; both martyrs. Brady's 
Claris Calendaria, vol. ii. 
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