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Excerpt from An Essay on Family Nomenclature, Historical, Etymological, and Humorous, Vol. 1 of 2: With Several Illustrative Appendices
I think I may say, that has yet appeared upon the subject of proper names. It is also the only one of any considerable extent exclusively devoted to family nomenclature.
This extension will explain itself to those readers who have honoured my former editions with a perusal. I have not forgotten the venerable adage, that a great book is a great evil but the continual occurrence of names heretofore unknown or unno ticed, and the extensive correspondence before alluded to, have almost inevitably conduced to this result. That my additional lucubrations may meet with the same indulgent reception as the former ones have done, is all that I can reasonably expect or desire.
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