BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done. The noble army of martyrs. Morning Prayer. Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate. Ibid Prayer for all Conditions of Men, Have mercy upon us miserable sinners. The Litany. From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitable ness. The world, the flesh, and the devil. The kindly fruits of the earth. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Collect for the Second Sunday in Advent. Renounce the Devil and all his works. Baptism of Infants. Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in them. Baptism of those of Riper Years. The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. Catechism. Ibid. To keep my hands from picking and stealing. To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. Ibid. Ibid. An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace. Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his Solemnization of Matrimony. peace. To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part. Ibid. BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.-TATE AND BRADY. 851 To love, cherish, and to obey. Solemnization of Matrimony. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.1 In the midst of life we are in death.2 Ibid. The Burial Service. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the resurrection. Whose service is perfect freedom. Ibid. Collect for Peace. Show thy servant the light of thy countenance. The Psalter. Psalm xxxi. 18. But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend. Men to be of one mind in an house. The iron entered into his soul. lv. 14. læviii. 6. cv. 18. The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. 1 With this ring I thee wed, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow. — Book of Common Prayer, according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America. 2 This is derived from a Latin antiphon, said to have been composed by Notker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watching some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbrücke, in peril of their lives. It forms the groundwork of Luther's antiphon "De Morte." * Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726. APPENDIX. All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters vir tuous. From the inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey. Am I not a man and a brother? From a medallion by Wedgwood (1787), representing a negro in chains, with one knee on the ground, and both hands lifted up to heaven. This was adopted as characteristic seal by the Antislavery Society of London. Anything for a quiet life. Title of a play by Middleton. Art and part. man A Scotch law-phrase, Art preservative of all arts. From the inscription upon the façade of the house at Harlem formerly occupied by Laurent Koster (or Coster), who is charged, among others, with the invention of printing. Mention is first made of this inscrip tion about 1628: As gingerly. MEMORIE SACRUM TYPOGRAPHIA ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM HIC PRIMUM INVENTA CIRCA ANNUM MCCCCXL. CHAPMAN: May Day. SHAKESPEARE : Two Gentlemen of Verona. Be sure you are right, then go ahead. The motto of David Crockett in the war of 1812. Before you could say Jack Robinson. This current phrase is said to be derived from a humorous song by Hudson, a tobacconist in Shoe Laue, London. He was a professional songwriter and vocalist, who used to be engaged to sing at supper-rooms and theatrical houses. A warke it ys as easie to be done HALLIWELL: Archæological Dictionary. Begging the question. This is a common logical fallacy, petitio principii; and the first explanation of the phrase is to be found in Aristotle's "Topica," viii. 13, where the five ways of begging the question are set forth. The earliest English work in which the expression is found is "The Arte of Logike plainlie set forth in our English Tongue, &c." (1584.) Better to wear out than to rust out. When a friend told Bishop Cumberland (1632-1718) he would wear BOSWELL: Tour to the Hebrides, p. 18, note. Beware of a man of one book. When St. Thomas Aquinas was asked in what manner a man might best become learned, he answered, "By reading one book." The homo unius libri is indeed proverbially formidable to all conver sational figurantes. - SOUTHEY: The Doctor, p. 164. Bitter end. This phrase is nearly without meaning as it is used. The true phrase, "better end," is used properly to designate a crisis, or the moment of an extremity. When in a gale a vessel has paid out all her cable, her cable has run out to the "better end," the end which is secured within the vessel and little used. Robinson Crusoe in describing the terrible storm in Yarmouth Roads says, "We rode with two anchors ahead, and the cables veered out to the better end." Cockles of the heart, Latham says the most probable explanation of this phrase lies (1) in the likeness of a heart to a cockleshell, the base of the former being compared to the hinge of the latter; (2) in the zoological name for the cockle and its congeners being Cardium, from kκapdia (heart). Castles in the air. This is a proverbial phrase found throughout English literature, the first instance noted being in Sir Philip Sidney's "Defence of Poesy,” Consistency, thou art a jewel. This is one of those popular sayings —like "Be good, and you will be happy," or "Virtue is its own reward"-that, like Topsy, "never was born, only jist growed." From the earliest times it has been the popular tendency to call this or that cardinal virtue, or bright and shining excellence, a jewel, by way of emphasis. For example, Iago says, "Good name, in man or woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls." WIGHT. O discretion, thou art a jewel! The Skylark, a Collection of well chosen English Songs. (London, 1772.) The origin of this expression is unknown. Some wag of the day allayed public curiosity in regard to its source with the information that it is from the ballad of Robin Roughhead in Murtagh's "Col lection of Ballads (1754)." It is needless to say that Murtagh is a verbal phantom, and the ballad of Robin Roughhead first appeared in an American newspaper in 1867. Cotton is King; or, Slavery in the Light of Political Economy. This is the title of a book by David Christy (1855). The expression "Cotton is king" was used by James Henry Ham mond in the United States Senate, March, 1858. Dead as Chelsea. To get Chelsea: to obtain the benefit of that hospital. "Dead as Chelsea, by God!" an exclamation uttered by a grenadier at Fontenoy, on having his leg carried away by a cannon-ball. - Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1758 (quoted by Brady, "Varieties of Litera ture," 1826). Die in the last ditch. To William of Orange may be ascribed this saying. When Bucking ham urged the inevitable destruction which hung over the United Provinces, and asked him whether he did not see that the commonwealth was ruined, "There is one certain means," replied the Prince, will die in the last ditch." HUME: History of England. (1622.) |