Feb. 16.
_To endeavour oneself_ (No. 8. p. 125.).--"G.P." thinks that the verb
"endeavour" takes a middle voice form in the collect for the second
Sunday after Easter, in the preface to the Confirmation Service, and in
the Form of Ordering of Priests: but in these instances is it any thing
more than the verb neuter, implying that we should endeavour ourselves
to follow, &c.?
In Shepherd's _Elucidation of the Book of Common Prayer_ (2 vols. 8vo.
Lord. 1817), under the head of the Confirmation Office, it is stated
relative to the persons to be confirmed (vol. ii. p. 312.), "that they
solemnly engage evermore to endeavour faithfully to perform their part
of that covenant."