GRACE BEFORE MEAT
e, expecting some savoury mess, and to find one quite tasteless and sapidless. Butter ill melted -- t commonest of kitcs me beside my tenour. -- to make inarticulate animal noises over a favourite food. as te proper to be preceded by tter to postpone ions to a season emplated urbation? I quarrel astes, nor my t t ty and feasting. But as ttle in tures so to grace t secretly kissing o some great fision of no ark but t tureen before preluding strains to ts of angels and co ts and severer repasts of treuse; to t not slenderly acknoion of t at t mood, less timed and tuned to tter befitting organs on. e sit too long at our meals, or are too curious in tudy of too disordered in our application to too great a portion of to our so be able o say grace. to be t ion is to add o injustice. A lurking sense of trut makes ty so cold and spiritless a service at most tables. In seen t never settled question arise, as to belike of next auty from years or gravity, s tter of compliment, eac uno s ty from his own shoulders?
I once drank tea in company divines of different persuasions, une to introduce to eac time t evening. Before t cup it to ty, seems it is tom aries to put up a s prayer before t at first quite appre upon an explanation, tle less importance it a custom knoary or tea-grace oget spirit mig Lucian ed ts, of o eac of performing or omitting a sacrifice, -- time, doubtful of ant nostrils ools) going a his supper.
A s form upon t to reverence; a long one, I am