tom of saying grace at meals s in in times of ter-state of man, riumper a season of sinence, a lucky booty of deers oats flesurally be used, per is not oto be uood, 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 s, 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 plated by terally heir courses are perennial.

        Again, t diet seems ttest to be preceded by t imulative to appetite, leaves t free for fn siderations. A man may feel tily tton urnips, and o reflect upon titution of eating; ion of mind, insistent    turtle. e (a rarus    ricables, eaming up trils, and moistening ts racted c trodu of t ceremony to be unseaso seems impertio interpose a religious se. It is a fusion of purpose to mutter out praises from a mout ers. ts of epicurism put out tle flame of devotion. tercepts it for akes aios. You are startled at tice of returning t ? -- for oo mucarve. It is to praise the Gods amiss.

        I , scarce sciously per in clergymen and ot of sances ional to on for a fe rid of some uneasy sensation of    t te, or    most stious in ty; but    in    mind tibility of tional gratitude.

        I ians sit do table, like    remembering t doites must run riot, and t pamper t and    are ransacked, I ion to a fitter season, e is laid; emperate diet aricted distony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for t,    ure better, o t a blessing. e may be gratefully sensible of t is a meaner and inferiratitude: but t of tenanot relis delicacies; t t frame or posure, I y    at some great , , in all probability, t tient o ele sense of true temperance) as t is    feel ions a little clouded, teams mingling ing tar sacrifice.

        t satire upon full tables and surfeits is t emptation in the wilderness:

        A table richly spread in regal mode,

        its of    sort

        And savour; beasts of chase, or fowl of game,

        In pastry built, or from t, or boiled,

        Gris-amber-steamed; all fish from sea or shore,

        Fres or purling brook, for which was drained

        Pontus, and Lue bay, and Afric coast.

        tempter, I    you, t tes    tory preface of a beion. to    graces    s    Cambridge? temptation fitter for a    is too civid ary, and ts altogetion of t deep, abstracted, y artillery of sauces, ion to ts and plain .    disturbed    augter. to temperate fantasies of t sort of feasts presehemselves ? -- he dreamed indeed,

        -- As appetite is    to dream,

        Of meats and drinks, natures refres s.

        But s? --

        , ood,

        And saheir horny beaks

        Food to Elijah bringing, even and morn;

        taugo abstain from :

        also how he fled

        Into t, and

        Under a juhen how awaked

        he coals prepared,

        And by t,

        And ate time after repose,

        trengty days:

        Sometimes, t ook,

        Or as a guest    his pulse.

        Noton is finelier faemperate dreams of to s, trodu of    fitting ai?

        tically I am no eo graces; but practically I o (before meat especially) to involve sometites, of one or anot spurs to our reason,    feebly set about t ends of preserving and tinuing t blessings to be plated at a distaude; but t of appetite (t fit season for t exercise. t tion, itle to tory prefaces. I    grace, and tions to t and drink folloo be less passionate and sensual ttons nor , as a s    aizen in ucker, I agi a surplice.

        I am no Quaker at my food. I fess I am not indifferent to t. tuous morsels of deers fles made to be received e services. I e a man ing not to kno aste in ters. I sinctively from one er in tastes for food. C----    a man ot    certain but . it innoce, I fess a less and less relises. table tribe    t ick to asparagus, o inspire ges. I am impatient and querulous under ary disappois, as to e    tance, expeg some savoury mess, and to find one quite tasteless and sapidless. Butter ill melted -- t o 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 aing. 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 aoion of t at t mood, less timed and tuo tter befitting ans    o 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. I never settled question arise, as to    belike of    auty from years ravity, s tter of pliment, eao s ty from his own shoulders?

        I once drank tea in pany    divines of different persuasions, uo 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 importa    a    knoary or tea-grace oget spirit mig Lu ed ts, of o eac of perf 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 afraid, ot escape tinence. I do not quite approve of tiess    equivocal    my pleasant sed frace used to inquire, first slyly leering doable, "Is t; -- signifitly adding, "t; Nor do I t sce perti,    ion of bes t aion unc illis erat locus. I remember    to it to recile t;good creatures," upon    before us, anding t expression in a loil some one recalled a legend, allers    to s of roast meat upon tly boards, till some pious beor, iserating tes, of ted our fless, and gave us -- roead of mutton.
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