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This was not John Philips, author of the Splendid Shilling. Namby is a baby way of pronouncing Ambrose,
and Pamby is a jingling reduplication. What's in a name? That which we call a rose,To take God's name in vain. To use it profanely, thoughtlessly, or irreverently. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.- Exod. xx. 7.Name Fairies are extremely averse to having their names known, indeed there seems to be a strange identity between personality and name. Thus we are forbidden to take God's name in vain, and when Jacob wrestled with the angel, he was anxious to know his opponent's name. (Compare the Greek onoma and the Latin anima.) |
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