_Acts xix. 28._
The law is open.
_Acts xix. 38._
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
_Acts xx. 35._
Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.
_Acts xxii. 3._
When I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
_Acts xxiv. 25._
I appeal unto Cæsar.
_Acts xxx. 11._
Words of truth and soberness.
_Acts xxvi. 25._
For this thing was not done in a corner.
_Acts xxvi. 26._
Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.
_Acts xxvi. 28._
There is no respect of persons with God.
_Romans ii. 11._
Fear of God before their eyes.
_Romans ii. 18._
God forbid.
_Romans ii. 31._
Who against hope believed in hope.
_Romans iv. 18._
Speak after the manner of men.
_Romans vi. 19._
The wages of sin is death.
_Romans vi. 23._
For the good that I would I do not; but the evil which I would
not, that I do.
_Romans viii. 19._
All things work together for good to them that love God.
_Romans viii. 28._
Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make
one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
_Romans ix. 21._
A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
_Romans x. 2._
Given to hospitality.
_Romans xii. 13._
Be not wise in your own conceits.
_Romans xii. 16._
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the
sight of all men.
_Romans xii. 17._
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with
all men.
_Romans xii. 18._
If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink:
for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
_Romans xii. 20._
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
_Romans xii. 21._
The powers that be are ordained of God.
_Romans xiii. 1._
Render therefore to all their dues.
_Romans xiii. 7._
Owe no man anything, but to love one another.
_Romans xiii. 8._
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
_Romans xiii. 10._
Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
_Romans xiv. 5._
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to
confound the things that are mighty.
_1 Corinthians i. 27._
I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
_1 Corinthians iii. 6._
Every man's work shall be made manifest.
_1 Corinthians iii. 13._
Not to think of men above that which is written.[845-1]
_1 Corinthians iv. 6._
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
_1 Corinthians v. 3._
The fashion of this world passeth away.
_1 Corinthians vii. 31._
I am made all things to all men.
_1 Corinthians ix. 22._
Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
_1 Corinthians x. 12._
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have
not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 1._
Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and
have not charity, I am nothing.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 2._
Charity suffereth long and is kind; charity envieth not; charity
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 4._
We know in part, and we prophesy in part.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 9._
When I was a child, I spake as a child. . . . When I became a
man, I put away childish things.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 11._
Now we see through a glass, darkly.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 12._
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the
greatest of these is charity.
_1 Corinthians xiii. 13._
If the trumpet give an uncertain sound.
_1 Corinthians xiv. 8._
Let all things be done decently and in order.
_1 Corinthians xiv. 40._
Evil communications corrupt good manners.[846-1]
_1 Corinthians xv. 33._
The first man is of the earth, earthy.
_1 Corinthians xv. 47._
In the twinkling of an eye.
_1 Corinthians xv. 52._
O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?
_1 Corinthians xv. 55._
Not of the letter, but of the spirit; for the letter killeth, but
the spirit giveth life.
_2 Corinthians iii. 6._
We have such hope, we use great plainness of speech.
_2 Corinthians iii. 12._
We walk by faith, not by sight.
_2 Corinthians v. 7._
Now is the accepted time.
_2 Corinthians vi. 2._
By evil report and good report.
_2 Corinthians vi. 8._
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
_2 Corinthians vi. 10._
Though I be rude in speech.
_2 Corinthians xi. 6._
Forty stripes save one.
_2 Corinthians xi. 24._
A thorn in the flesh.
_2 Corinthians xii. 7._
Strength is made perfect in weakness.
_2 Corinthians xii. 9._
The right hands of fellowship.
_Galatians ii. 9._
Weak and beggarly elements.
_Galatians iv. 9._
It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing.
_Galatians iv. 18._
Ye are fallen from grace.
_Galatians v. 4._
A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.
_Galatians v. 9._
Every man shall bear his own burden.
_Galatians vi. 5._
Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
_Galatians vi. 7._
Middle wall of partition.
_Ephesians ii. 14._
Carried about with every wind of doctrine.
_Ephesians iv. 14._
Speak every man truth with his neighbour.
_Ephesians iv. 25._
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your
wrath.
_Ephesians iv. 26._
To live is Christ, and to die is gain.
_Philippians i. 21._
Whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame.
_Philippians iii. 19._
The peace of God, which passeth all understanding.
_Philippians iv. 7._
Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good
report: if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think
on these things.
_Philippians iv. 8._
I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be
content.
_Philippians iv. 11._
Touch not; taste not; handle not.
_Colossians ii. 21._
Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth.
_Colossians iii. 2._
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt.
_Colossians iv. 6._
Labour of love.
_1 Thessalonians i. 3._
Study to be quiet.
_1 Thessalonians iv. 11._
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
_1 Thessalonians v. 21._
The law is good, if a man use it lawfully.
_1 Timothy i. 8._
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
_1 Timothy iii. 3._
He hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
_1 Timothy v. 8._
Busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.
_1 Timothy v. 13._
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's
sake.
_1 Timothy v. 23._
The love of money is the root of all evil.
_1 Timothy vi. 10._
Fight the good fight.
_1 Timothy vi. 12._
Rich in good works.
_1 Timothy vi. 18._
Science falsely so called.
_1 Timothy vi. 20._
A workman that needeth not to be ashamed.
_2 Timothy ii. 15._
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have
kept the faith.
_2 Timothy iv. 7._
Unto the pure all things are pure.
_Titus i. 15._
Such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
_Hebrews v. 12._
Every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of
righteousness: for he is a babe.
_Hebrews v. 13._
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.
_Hebrews v. 14._
If God be for us, who can be against us.
_Hebrews viii. 31._
Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.
_Hebrews xi. 1._
Of whom the world was not worthy.
_Hebrews xi. 38._
A cloud of witnesses.
_Hebrews xii. 1._
Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth.
_Hebrews xii. 6._
The spirits of just men made perfect.
_Hebrews xii. 23._
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have
entertained angels unawares.
_Hebrews xiii. 2._
Yesterday, and to-day, and forever.
_Hebrews xiii. 8._
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is
tried, he shall receive the crown of life.
_James i. 12._
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.
_James i. 19._
How great a matter a little fire kindleth!
_James iii. 5._
The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.[849-1]
_James iii. 8._
Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
_James iv. 7._
Hope to the end.
_1 Peter i. 13._
Fear God. Honour the king.
_1 Peter ii. 17._
Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit.
_1 Peter iii. 4._
Giving honour unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel.
_1 Peter iii. 7._
Be ye all of one mind.
_1 Peter iii. 8._
Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
_1 Peter iv. 8._
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a
roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.
_1 Peter v. 8._
And the day star arise in your hearts.
_2 Peter i. 19._
The dog is turned to his own vomit again.
_2 Peter ii. 22._
Bowels of compassion.
_1 John iii. 17._
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
_1 John iv. 18._
Be thou faithful unto death.
_Revelation ii. 10._
He shall rule them with a rod of iron.
_Revelation ii. 27._
All nations and kindreds and tongues.
_Revelation vii. 9._
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and
the last.
_Revelation xxii. 13._
FOOTNOTES:
[845-1] Usually quoted, "To be wise above that which is written."
[846-1] Phtheirousin êthê chrêsth' omiliai kakai.--MENANDER (341
B. C.). (Dübner's edition of his "Fragments," appended to
Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Græca, p. 102, line 101.)
[849-1] Usually quoted, "The tongue is an unruly member."
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.
_Morning Prayer._
The noble army of martyrs.
_Morning Prayer._
Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
_Prayer for all Conditions of Men._
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
_The Litany._
From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
_The Litany._
The world, the flesh, and the devil.
_The Litany._
The kindly fruits of the earth.
_The Litany._
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._
To keep my hands from picking and stealing.
_Catechism._
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please
God to call me.
_Catechism._
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
_Catechism._
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.
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
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.[851-1]
_Solemnization of Matrimony._
In the midst of life we are in death.[851-2]
_The Burial Service._
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain
hope of the resurrection.
_The Burial Service._
Whose service is perfect freedom.
_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.
_The Psalter. Psalm lv. 14._
Men to be of one mind in an house.
_The Psalter. Psalm lxviii. 6._
The iron entered into his soul.
_The Psalter. Psalm cv. 18._
The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.
_The Psalter. Psalm cx. 3._
FOOTNOTES:
[851-1] 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._
[851-2] 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 ground-work of Luther's antiphon "De Morte."
TATE AND BRADY.[851-3]
Untimely grave.
_Psalm vii._
And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.
_Psalm xv. 5._
The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
_Psalm cxii. 6._
FOOTNOTES:
[851-3] Nahum Tate, 1652-1715; Nicholas Brady, 1659-1726.
APPENDIX.
All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
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 a characteristic seal by the
Antislavery Society of London.
Anything for a quiet life.
Title of a play by Middleton.
Art and part.
A Scotch law-phrase,--an accessory before and after the fact. A
man is said to be _art and part_ of a crime when he contrives the
manner of the deed, and concurs with and encourages those who
commit the crime, although he does not put his own hand to the
actual execution of it.--SCOTT: _Tales of a Grandfather, chap.
xxii._ (_Execution of Morton._)
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 inscription about 1628:--
MEMORIÆ SACRUM
TYPOGARAPHIA
ARS ARTIUM OMNIUM
CONSERVATRIX.
HIC PRIMUM INVENTA
CIRCA ANNUM MCCCCXL.
As gingerly.
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 Lane, London. He was a professional
song-writer and vocalist, who used to be engaged to sing at
supper-rooms and theatrical houses.
A warke it ys as easie to be done
As tys to saye _Jacke! robys on_.
HALLIWELL: _Archæological Dictionary._ (Cited from an old Play.)
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
himself out by his incessant application, "It is better," replied
the Bishop, "to wear out than to rust out."--HORNE: _Sermon on
the Duty of Contending for the Truth._
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
conversational 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
zoölogical name for the cockle and its congeners being
_Cardium_, from kardia (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."
Shakespeare elsewhere calls _experience_ a "jewel." Miranda says
her _modesty_ is the "jewel" in her dower; and in "All 's Well
that ends Well," Diana terms her _chastity_ the "jewel" of her
house.--R. A. 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 "Collection 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 Hammond
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 Literature," 1826).
Die in the last ditch.
To William of Orange may be ascribed this saying. When Buckingham
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, "by which I can be sure never to see my country's
ruin,--I will die in the last ditch."--HUME: _History of
England._ (1622.)
Drive a coach and six through an Act of Parliament.
Macaulay ("History of England," chap. xii.) gives a saying "often
in the mouth of Stephen Rice [afterward Chief Baron of the
Exchequer], 'I will drive a coach and six through the Act of
Settlement.'"
During good behaviour.
That after the said limitation shall take effect, . . . judge's
commissions be made _quando se bene gesserit_.--_Statutes 12 and
13 William III. c. 2, sect. 3._
Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.
Declared by Captain O'Kelley at Epsom, May 3, 1769.--_Annals of
Sporting, vol. ii. p. 271._
Emerald Isle.
Dr. William Drennan (1754-1820) says this expression was first
used in a party song called "Erin, to her own Tune," written in
1795. The song appears to have been anonymous.
Era of good feeling.
The title of an article in the "Boston Centinel," July 12, 1817.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become
a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given
liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break,
servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the
punishment of his guilt.--JOHN PHILPOT CURRAN: _Speech upon the
Right of Election, 1790._ (_Speeches. Dublin, 1808._)
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an
advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as
against despots. What is it? Distrust.--DEMOSTHENES: _Philippic
2, sect. 24._
Fiat justitia ruat coelum.
WILLIAM WATSON: _Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions_
(1602). PRYNNE: _Fresh Discovery of Prodigious New
Wandering-Blazing Stars_ (second edition, London, 1646). WARD:
_Simple Cobbler of Aggawam in America_ (1647).
Fiat Justitia et ruat Mundus.--_Egerton Papers_ (1552, p. 25).
_Camden Society_ (1840). AIKIN: _Court and Times of James I.,
vol. ii. p. 500_ (1625).
January 31, 1642, the Duke of Richmond in a speech before the
House of Lords used these words: _Regnet Justitia et ruat
Coelum._ (Old Parliamentary History, vol. x. p. 28.)
Free soil, free men, free speech, Frémont.
The Republican Party rallying cry in 1856.
Gentle craft.
According to Brady ("Clavis Calendaria"), this designation arose
from the fact that in an old romance a prince of the name of
Crispin is made to exercise, in honour of his namesake, Saint
Crispin, the trade of shoemaking. There is a tradition that King
Edward IV., in one of his disguises, once drank with a party of
shoemakers, and pledged them. The story is alluded to in the old
play of "George a-Greene" (1599):--
Marry, because you have drank with the King,
And the King hath so graciously pledged you,
You shall no more be called shoemakers;
But you and yours, to the world's end,
Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.
Gentlemen of the French guard, fire first.
Lord C. Hay at the battle of Fontenoy, 1745. To which the Comte
d'Auteroches replied, "Sir, we never fire first; please to fire
yourselves."--FOURNIER: _L'Esprit dans l'histoire._
Good as a play.
An exclamation of Charles II. when in Parliament attending the
discussion of Lord Ross's Divorce Bill.
The king remained in the House of Peers while his speech was
taken into consideration,--a common practice with him; for the
debates amused his sated mind, and were sometimes, he used to
say, as good as a comedy.--MACAULAY: _Review of the Life and
Writings of Sir William Temple._
Nullos his mallem ludos spectasse.--HORACE: _Satires, ii. 8, 79._
Greatest happiness of the greatest number.
That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the
greatest numbers.--HUTCHESON: _Inquiry concerning Moral Good and
Evil, sect. 3._ (1720.)
Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria) who taught my
lips to pronounce this sacred truth,--that the greatest happiness
of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and
legislation.--BENTHAM: _Works, vol. x. p. 142._
The expression is used by Beccaria in the introduction to his
"Essay on Crimes and Punishments." (1764.)
Hanging of his cat on Monday
For killing of a mouse on Sunday.
_Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys_ (edition of 1805, p. 5).
Hobson's choice.
Tobias Hobson (died 1630) was the first man in England that let
out hackney horses. When a man came for a horse he was led into
the stable, where there was a great choice, but he obliged him to
take the horse which stood next to the stable-door; so that every
customer was alike well served according to his chance,--from
whence it became a proverb when what ought to be your election
was forced upon you, to say, "Hobson's choice."--_Spectator, No.
509._
Where to elect there is but one,
'T is Hobson's choice,--take that or none.
THOMAS WARD (1577-1639): _England's Reformation, chap. iv. p. 326._
Intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.
Lord Coleridge remarked that Maule told him what he said in the
"black beetle" matter: "Creswell, who had been his pupil, was on
the other side in a case where he was counsel, and was very lofty
in his manner. Maule appealed to the court: 'My lords, we are
vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner
would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.'"
(Repeated to a member of the legal profession in the United
States.)
It is a far cry to Lochow.
Lochow and the adjacent districts formed the original seat of the
Campbells. The expression of "a far cry to Lochow" was
proverbial. (Note to Scott's "Rob Roy," chap. xxix.)
Lucid interval.
BACON: _Henry VII._ SIDNEY: _On Government, vol. i. chap. ii.
sect. 24._ FULLER: _A Pisgah Sight of Palestine, book iv. chap.
ii._ SOUTH: _Sermon, vol. viii. p. 403._ DRYDEN: _MacFlecknoe._
MATHEW HENRY: _Commentaries, Psalm lxxxviii._ JOHNSON: _Life of
Lyttelton._ BURKE: _On the French Revolution._
Nisi suadeat intervallis.
BRACTON: _Folio 1243 and folio 420 b. Register Original, 267 a._
Mince the matter.
CERVANTES: _Don Quixote, Author's Preface._ SHAKESPEARE:
_Othello, act ii. sc. 3._ WILLIAM KING: _Ulysses and Teresias._
Months without an R.
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an
_R_ in their name to eat an oyster.--BUTLER: _Dyet's Dry Dinner._
(1599.)
Nation of shopkeepers.