The Rev. Dr. Moore, of Richmond, Va., delivered a lecture in that city on the origin and meaning of words, in which many curious facts were developed, among which were that the word Davis means, “God with us,” and that Lincoln, when subjected to etymological analysis, means, “on the verge of a precipice.”
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