Cut one's name

[Joel S. Berson]

"Inscribe" also, but a chore to winnow from the
literal.  The first (in GBooks, not necessarily in date) I found:

1)  1886

"and the congress inscribed his name among national heroes."

The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft. Vol. 12.
History of Mexico, Vol. 4, 1804-1824. p. 575, note 16.


2)  1866 [assuming it's also in that edition; GBooks has an 1871 ed.]

"There are all degrees of poets, from the lowest
to the highest, just as there are different
classes of musicians, painters, sculptors, etc. ;
but to excel, and to inscribe one's name on the
roll of great bards, one must be not only every
inch a man, but must have 'genius' as well."

Samuel Roberts Wells, New physiognomy, or Signs of character ... . p. 525.
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Joel

At 6/20/2012 01:36 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>I'd think "etch one's name" would be worth
>searching too.  Here's one from GB, from the
>1910 Worcester Magazine (vol. 13) on Isaiah
>Thomas (not the point guard), involving a nice semi-pun:
>=================
>Far in advance of his contemporaries, he etched
>his name deep in the scroll headed by Gutenberg
>and Fust--etched it so deeply that Harry Lyman
>Koopman, librarian of Brown University, writing
>in the Printing Art, described him as "the
>greatest American printer down to the advent of certain men now living
"

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