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A Lift for the Lazy (Paperback)
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A Lift for the Lazy (Paperback)
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1849 Excerpt: ...in a "Discourse on the Liturgy," says: "The
collects are generally so exactly suited to the epistle and gospel,
that some think they take their name from being collected out of
those parts of the Holy Writ. But the use of the word in the Bible
and the Fathers, being applied to denote the gathering together of
the people in religious assemblies, thence some ritualists say, the
collects are prayers made among the people collected or gathered
together. Others think they are named collects, because of their
comprehensive brevity, because the priest in them sums up the
desires of the people in a little room. I may add in this variety,
my own conjecture, that these prayers have been named collects from
their being used so near the time of making the collection before
the Holy Communion." Ditto.--An Italian word used in book-keeping,
meaning " the said," or the same as that preceding. Jargon is
derived (by corruption) from the Italian chierico, a clergyman: for
when the common people heard the Latin tongue used in the liturgies
and prayers of the church, they called that and any other language
which they did not understand, chiericon, q. d. clergyman's
language: chiericon soon slided into jargon, in the same manner
that chirurgeon has softened itself into surgeon. Malone--Tapping.
129 alone.--This is the name of the commentator who ruined
Shakspere's bust in Stratford church, in 1793. Listen to Charles
Lamb--" The wretched Malone could not do worse when he bribed the
sexton of Stratford church to let him whitewash the painted effigy
of old Shakspere, which stood there, in rude but lively fashion
depicted, to the very color of the cheek, the eye, the eyebrow,
hair, the very dress he used to wear; the only authentic testimony
we ha...
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Rarebooksclub.com
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
Books Group
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Dimensions: |
246 x 189 x 3mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
60 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-130-42292-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-130-42292-5 |
Barcode: |
9781130422924 |
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