ABSTRACT
I have, in a former Paper, remarked the Partiality by which we are governed in our Dealings with Trades and Professions, and shewed that we are led entirely by Fashion to prefer this or that individual Member to all the rest of his Calling.2 This hath given Rise to a common Expression of Getting a Name, and to the common Custom of hanging out Names on a Sign, by which we are sometimes not only informed where Mr. A.B. now lives, but likewise of the Place from whence he came. There is one of these Names in Fleet-street, which seems to be hung out as the Rival of St. Dunstan’s Clock.3
