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The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.

Catechism.

To keep my hands from picking and stealing.

Ibid.

To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.

Ibid.

An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.

Ibid.

Let him now speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace. Solemnization of Matrimony.

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.

To love, cherish, and to obey.

Ibid.

Ibid.

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I

thee endow.

In the midst of life we are in death.1

Ibid.

The Burial Service.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

Ibid.

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.

Tate & Brady. - Sternhold & Hopkins. 647

But it was even thou, my companion, my guide, and mine own familiar friend.

The Psalter. Ps. lv. 14.

Men to be of one mind in an house.

Ibid. Ps. lxviii. 6.

The iron entered into his soul.

Ps. cv. 18.

TATE AND BRADY.1

And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.

Ps. xv. 5.

The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.

Ps. cxii. 6.

STERNHOLD AND HOPKINS.

The Lord descended from above
And bow'd the heavens high;
And underneath his feet he cast
The darkness of the sky.

On cherubs and on cherubims
Full royally he rode;

And on the wings of all the winds
Came flying all abroad.2

1 Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Nicholas Brady, 1659, 1726.

2 By Thomas Sternhold, – 1549.

APPENDIX.

A Cadmean victory.

Greek Proverb.

Συμμισγόντων δὲ τῇ ναυμαχίῃ, Καδμείη τις νίκη τοῖσι
Φωκαιεῦσι ἐγένετο. — Herod. i. 166.

A Cadmean victory was one in which the victors
suffered as much as their enemies.

The half is more than the whole.

Νήπιοι· οὐδὲ ἴσασιν ὅσῳ πλέον ἥμισυ παντός. - Hesiod, Works and Days, v. 40.

To leave no stone unturned.

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Πάντα κινῆσαι πέτρον. - Euripides, Heraclid. 1002.
This may be traced to a response of the Delphic
Oracle given to Polycrates, as the best means
of finding a treasure buried by Xerxes' general,
Mardonius, on the field of Platea. The Ora-
cle replied, Пlúvтa λiðov kível, Turn every stone. —
Leutsch and Schneidewin, Corp. Paræmiogr.
Græc. Vol. i. p. 146.

Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober. Inserit se tantis viris mulier alienigeni sanguinis: quæ a Philippo rege temulento immerenter damnata, Provocarem ad Philippum, inquit, sed sobrium. Val. Maximus. Lib. vi. cap. 2.

Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Sed res docuit id verum esse quod in carminibus Appius ait, "Fabrum esse suæ quemque fortunæ." - Pseudo-Sallust. Epist. de Rep. Ordin.

ii. 1.

The sinews of war.

Æschines (Adv. Ctesiph. ch. 53) ascribes to Demosthenes the expression ὑποτέτμηται τὰ νεῦρα τῶν πραγμάτων, "the sinews of affairs are cut." Diogenes Laertius, in his Life of Bion (lib. iv. c. 7, § 3), represents that philosopher as saying τὸν πλοῦτον εἶναι νεύρα πραγμάτων, “that riches were the sinews of business," or, as the phrase may mean, "of the state." Referring, perhaps, to this maxim of Bion, Plutarch says in his Life of Cleomenes (c. 27), " He who first called money the sinews of the state seems to have said this with special reference to war." Accordingly, we find money called expressly rà vεÙра τоν поλéμov, "the sinews of war," in Libanius, Orat. xlvi. (vol. ii. p. 477, ed. Reiske), and by the Scholiast on Pindar, Olymp. i. 4 (comp. Photius, Lex. s. v. Mɛyúvopoç nĥoútov). So Cicero Philipp. v. 2, 'nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam."

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Man is a two-legged animal without feathers. Plato having defined man to be a two-legged animal without feathers, he (Diogenes) plucked a cock, and, bringing him into the school, said "Here is Plato's man." From which there was added to the definition, “with broad, flat nails." Diogenes Laertius, Lib. vi. c. ii. Vit. Diog. Ch. vi. § 40.

Medicine for the soul.

Inscription over the Door of the Library at
Thebes. Diodorus Siculus, i. 49, 3.

"There is no other royal path which leads to geometry," said Euclid to Ptolemy I.

Proclus, Com. on Euclid's Elements.
Ch. iv.

Book ii.

Adding insult to injury.

A fly bit the bare pate of a bald man; who, endeavouring to crush it, gave himself a heavy blow. Then said the fly, jeeringly: "You wanted to revenge the sting of a tiny insect with death; what will you do to yourself, who have added insult to injury?”

Quid facies tibi,

Injuriæ qui addideris contumeliam ?

Phædrus, The Bald Man and the Fly. Book v. Fable 3. Conspicuous by his absence.

Sed præfulgebant Cassius atque Brutus, eo ipso quod effigies eorum non videbantur. - Tacitus, Annals, iii. § 76.

Lord John Russell, alluding to an expression used by him in his address to the electors of the city of London, said, It is not an original expression of mine, but is taken from one of the greatest historians of antiquity.

I am the things that are, and those that are to

be, and those that have been. No one ever lifted my skirts; the fruit which I bore was the Sun.

Inscription in the Temple of Neith at Sais, in Egypt. Proclus, On Plato's Timaeus, p. 30 D. See also Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, § 9, p. 354. Cæsar's wife should be above suspicion.

Cæsar was asked why he had divorced his wife.

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Because," said he, "I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion." — Plutarch, Life of Cæsar. Ch. 10.

Strike, but hear.

Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he was going to strike, Themistocles said, "Strike if you will, but hear."- Plutarch, Life of Themistocles.

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