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5602. NAMES, Bestowal of.—
I agree
with you entirely in condemning the mania of
giving names to objects of any kind after persons
still living. Death alone can seal the
title of any man to this honor, by putting it
out of his power to forfeit it.—
To Dr. Benjamin Rush. Washington ed. iv, 335.
Ford ed., vii, 459.
(M.
1800)
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