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138 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
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History Of Christian Names. By The Autho...
Edward and Russia literall , and yrich Is now guard likel is y an to heroic be much name used of the in _ISIib Eng elung land \
and Victoria froni , the on earliest the , contrary Saxon , is , times from popular the Latin in , Eng vinco land _, to . conquer .
, " The original Victoria was a Roman borne virgin b , m the axt admirable yred in the Decian hter perse of th € -
Colonne cution , whence from whom the Italian France Vittoria and Germany , seem y to have learnt daug it , since aftei her time , Victoria and Victorine became very common in France ; and it was
from like distant one Germany lands , of our will that most testif we national learnt to the the names Victoria wide ; while sweep that m of will any the , probabl a rule city of c y alled , Eng sound land Yictoria hereaftei in the in y
, ' Victorian age . '" modern At the nomenclature end of her work The , Miss chapter Yonge having devotes reference several pag to Great -es to
disuse Britain or is recurrence full of interest of . certain . We prop learn er names that , g the ives appearance data to our ,
Taking history , , and the marks subject conquest at the , alliance Reform , or ation accidental , we fin circumstance d that the .
duced custom . of up The using Utop s ian urnames school as drew Christian upon the names heathen was my then thology intro- , their aints
while the more pious , no longer permitted patron s , were fain to be content with in old the Nonconformist virtues , and Prudence families , Te Old m-
Testament perance , & names c , still wer linger e revived with the Puritans . Phylli . s and Chloeand other dwellers in Arcadian bowers , came in with the
witness Restoration , the . names The Augustan found in age the approved " Spectator an . ' ornamental 9 The chivalrous taste , Wordsworth
school of Scottand the simplicity upheld hj , were beyond opposed a to few thi , Almas s stilted , _ISTavarinos style , and , and it graduall such like y , died no par out ticular , and
to fashion addth m at ark Alma s our present or all good nomenclature \ is a real old . Erse It may name not , be and amiss that
probabl , y the Crimean , river was so named from these Keltic words As . specimens of odd names , the following will lose nothing
by comparison : — " Nonconformity leaves its mark of the in wildest its virtue kind names Talithacumi and in its Scripture the
4 names daug Alas hter ' , the the of parents latter a Baptist sometimes supposing . A clergyman that ' Alas had ! my been brother desired . , ' tradition was to christen a call of was on l a Acts boy the
fo being name , chosen of the disobedient for a fifth son prop other , whose het proposed . elder There brothers names is a floating had be been mentioned called ' after JElibri the s ' '
which ur Evangelists some peop books . le Among persisted and so it belonge wasbeing d to their elihris may famil ( from y , for the _» it books was ) in the their old ,
Latin grandfather manner ' s of commencin ; g an inscri , ption , in a book . ' Valuable and serviceable ' is also said to have been intended unfortunate for a child of on twin the authority presented of an
engravin for the imposition g in an old of watch Jupiter ; and and an Orion , because pair their parents s were thought them and had heard them "
pretty names , on .
138 Notices Of Books ,
138 NOTICES OF BOOKS ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1863, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101863/page/66/
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