The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
Origin of Popular Phrases,

ssDevil take the hindmost. This
far more expressive than elegant say
ing occurs originally in Beaumont and
Fletcher's play of ''Bonduca. 1t
also occurs in Buffers "Hudibras, y
Prior's "Ode ON Taking Nemur,''
Pope's 'Dunciad," and in the poem
$40 a Haggis," by Robert Burns.
Enough is as good as a feast
One of the oldest of all the popular say
ings in use. 1t has been traced as far
back as 143S occurring in a book emit
tied "Dives and Pauper," published in
that year. 1t is also found in Gas
coigne's Memories, 1878. Rays
Proverbs, /" Gielding's "Covert Garden
Tragedy, . and Bickerstaff's "Love in a
Village
GAS good as a play,'-An exclama
tion of Charles Ii. when in Parliament
attending the discussion of Lord Ross
divorce bill. Macaulay, in his review
of the life and writings of Sir William
Temple, refers to the saying a sfollows !:
"The King remained in the House OF
Peers while his speech was taken into
considerations common practice with
him ; for the debates amused his stated
mind, and were sometimes, he used to
say, as good as a comedy"
rebellion to tyrants is obedience to
Cod From an inscription on the
cannon near which the ashes of Presi-
dent John Bradshaw were lodged, on
the top of a hill hear Martha Bay, in
Jamaica. Randall, in his "Life of
Jefferson" has this to say of the quota
ton in question ''This suppositious
epitaph was found among the papers of
Mr.. jefferson, in his handwriting.
1t was supposed to be one of DR.. Frank
Inns spirit stirring inspirations"
BLESSINGS IN Him who Invented
sleep. Miguel de Cervantes, 1547,
died 1916, originated this well-known
saying. 1t occurs in a passage in Don
Quixote, as follows
Blessings on Him who invented
sleep, the mantle that covers all human
thoughts, the food that appeases hunger,
the drink that quepches thirst, the fire
that warns cold, the cold that moder-
ates heat, and, lastly, the general coin
that purchases all things, the balance
and weight that equals the shepherd
with the King and the simple with the
wise.o
"Dies Ire.-The name generally given
from the opening Words to the famous
medieval hymn on the Last Judgment,
On account of the solemn grandeur Of
the ideas which it brings to the mind
as well as the deep and trembling emo
| tons it is fitted to excite, it soon founG
its way into the liturgy of the Church
The authorship Of the hymn hal
been ascribed to Gregory the Great ; st
Bernard, of Clairvaux Umbertus, ant
Frangipani, the last two of whom wer,
noted as Church hymnists but in al
probability it proceeded from the pen 0
the Franciscan, Thomas of Celano,
native of the Abrazzi, in the Kingdom
of Naples, who died about the year 1856
When the Church adopted it, and mad
it a portion Of the service of the mas
cannot be entertained with any exact
ness, but it must have been in any cas-
before 1885. Several alterations wer
then made in the text that, however
is believed to be the original which
engraved ON a marble tablet in tn
Church Of st. Francis at Mantua. GeI
many has produced many translation
Of the hymn, such as those of Schlege
Fichte and Runsen. 1t was translate
into English by Richard Cranshaw, i
the seventeenth century. and by Lor
Macaulay, Lord Lindsay, the Re,
Isaac Williams, of Woodford, an
Others in our own day. Sir Waite
Scott has introduced two or three of Il
opening verses into his "Lay of the La,
Minstrel"