" Saying Grace" Historically Considered
Subtitle: And Numerous Forms Of Grace Taken From Ancient And Modern Sources; With Appendices
Publisher: James Parker & Co.
Published: 1903
Place of publication: Oxford; London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: TABLE OF CONTENTS.; title: Part I. Introduction on 'Saying Grace'; title: Custom general as shewn from Pagan, Hebrew and Christian Literature; title: In Pagan Literature evidence from Homer, Hesiod, Plato, Athenoeus, Epictetus, Virgil, Horace and Livy 3; title: The Ainu of Japan 7; title: In Hebrew Literature the evidence from the Old Testament and the Apocrypha 8; title: From the Mishna and other Jewish writings 12; title: In Christian Literature, the evidence from the New Testament : — (1) From the example of our Lord Himself 14; title: (2) From the example of the Apostles 17; title: The words evKoyeTi/ and cuxaptffTeu' 20; title: From the Epistle of St. Clement and from the Didache 21; title: In the second century from Aristides 22; title: In the third century from Clemens of Alexandria, Tertullian and St. Cyprian; title: In the fourth century from St. Basil 24; title: In the fifth century from the Hymns of St. Prudentius ; from writings of St. Chrysostom and from those attributed to St. Athanasius 25; title: From passages in writings of St. Jerome, St. Augustine, and from the address by Sozomen to Theodosius; title: The story in the Lausiaca of Palladius 33; title: From passages in writings of Cassian, and Bishop Maximus of Turin  34; title: In the sixth century the Benedictine Rule and the order of Bp. Martin of Braga 36; title: Three anecdotes relating to blessing the food told by Gregory, Bishop of Tours  37; title: Two anecdotes told by Gregory the Great 40; title: In the seventh century the Rule of St. Columbanus, St. Isidore of Spain, St. Donatus, Bishop of Besancon, and Fructuosus, Bp. of Braga, the anonymous Magister,' and A bp. Theodore 42; title: In the eighth century the anecdote of King Oswald told by the Venerable Bede 45; title: In the ninth century the Epigrams of Alcuin 46; title: In the tenth century Pope Leo's rule as to the use of the Lord's Prayer, &c. The regulations by Howell, the good king of Wales 48; title: In the eleventh and twelfth centuries the example from the Bayeux Tapestry 50; title: Passages from William of Malmesbury, Gilbert, Bishop of Lunicensis, and St. Bernard 51; title: The Rules given in 4 The Evesham Book,' c. 1300 53; title: A passage from Thomas a Kempis [ob. 1477) 58; title: References to the custom of saying grace from Medieval Romances and Books of directions such as 'The Book of Courtesy,'  The Babees Book,' &c, of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries 60; title: Similar extracts from French Poems 65; title: From the  School of Vertue ' and The Book of Nurture '  67; title: Passages from the colloquies of Erasmus and from Shakespeare; title: From writings of Dr. Donne and Bp. Tillotson, and John Wesley's exhortation; title: From Tennyson ; the late Bp. Wordsworth (of Lincoln) ; Daniel Moore, and Rev. II. M. Villiers; title: Part II. Ancient Forms of Grace.; title: From the Didache, and the Seventh Book of the Apostolical Constitutions; title: From St. Chrysostom ; and the ' De Virginitate ' attributed to St. Athanasius of the fifth century; title: From the Leonine, Gelasian, Gregorian, and Gallican Sacramentaries of the sixth and seventh centuries; title: From Egbert's Pontifical of the eighth century; title: From the Jumieges Missal of the eleventh century; title: From the ' Ancren Riwle ' of the thirteenth century; title: From William Langland, and Lay Folks' Mass ifook of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: The offices in the Sarum Breviary of 1483, and in a MS. in Balliol College Library of about the same time; title: Forms of grace in ' Prymers ' and other books of Devotion printed during Henry VIII.'s reign; title: From those printed during Edw. VIth's reign, including some by Melanchthon; title: From those printed during Queen Mary's and Queen Elizabeth's reign; title: From those printed during James I.'s and Charles I.'s reign, and later graces by Robert Herrick, &c.