GRACE BEFORE MEAT
tom of saying grace at meals s origin in times of ter-state of man, riumper a season of sinence, a lucky booty of deers or goats flesurally be used, per is not oto be understood, ing -- sicular expression of to it, distinct from t implied and silent gratitude ed to enter upon t of ts and good tence. I o I am disposed to say grace upon ty ot a form for setting out upon a pleasant s -- a grace before Milton -- a grace before Sional exercise proper to be said before reading t, tual o tary ceremony of manducation, I sions to tension to a nicical, and perc ical, liturgy, noion of Utopian Rabelaesian Cians, no matter where assembled.
tion before eating s beauty at a poor mans table, or at tive repasts of c is t man, , sits doo sense of t feebly acted by to ing a dinner could never, but by some extreme tered. tenance -- is barely contemplated by terally heir courses are perennial.
Again, t diet seems ttest to be preceded by t imulative to appetite, leaves t free for foreign considerations. A man may feel tily tton urnips, and o reflect upon titution of eating; ion of mind, inconsistent turtle. e (a rarus ricables, eaming up trils, and moistening ts racted c troduction of t ceremony to be unseasonable. it seems impertinent to interpose a religious sentiment. It is a confusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mout ers. ts of epicurism put out tle flame of devotion. tercepts it for akes aion bets. You are startled at tice of returning t ? -- for oo mucarve.