96TH: It’s unbecoming to Stoop much to ones Meat Keep your Fingers clean & when foul wipe them on a Corner of your Table Napkin.
97TH: Put not another bit into your Mouth til the former be Swallowed let not your Morsels be too big for the Gowls.
98TH: Drink not nor talk with your mouth full neither Gaze about you while you are a Drinking.
99TH: Drink not too leisurely nor yet too hastily. Before and after Drinking wipe your Lips breath not then or Ever with too Great a Noise, for its uncivil.
100TH: Cleanse not your teeth with the Table Cloth Napkin Fork or Knife but if Others do it let it be done wt. a Pick Tooth.
101ST: Rince not your Mouth in the Presence of Others.
102ND: It is out of use to call upon the Company often to Eat nor need you Drink to others every Time you Drink.
103RD: In Company of your Betters be not longer in eating than they are lay not your Arm but only your hand upon the table.
104TH: It belongs to the Chiefest in Company to unfold his Napkin and fall to Meat first, But he ought then to Begin in time & to Dispatch with Dexterity that the Slowest may have time allowed him.
105TH: Be not Angry at Table whatever happens & if you have reason to be so, Shew it not but on a Chearfull Countenance especially if there be Strangers for Good Humour makes one Dish of Meat a Feast.
106TH: Set not yourself at the upper of the Table but if it Be your Due or that the Master of the house will have it So, Contend not, least you Should Trouble the Company.
107TH: If others talk at Table be attentive but talk not with Meat in your Mouth.
108TH: When you Speak of God or his Atributes, let it be Seriously & wt. Reverence. Honour & Obey your Natural Parents altho they be Poor.
109TH: Let your Recreations be Manfull not Sinfull.
110TH: Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Celestial fire Called Conscience.
APPENDIX TWO
Representative Biblical Quotations and Allusions used by George Washington
All quotations are from the Writings of Washington, unless otherwise noted. PGW refers to the Papers of George Washington at the Library of Congress
APPENDIX THREE
George Washington’s Written Prayers
One of the elements of the Christian faith that was suspect, and eventually abandoned by Deism, was the practice of prayer. This was logical since there was little purpose in speaking to a Deity who on principle had abandoned all contact and communication with his creation.
Given this understanding, Washington’s lifelong practice of prayer, illustrated by these more than one hundred written prayers, is an undeniable refutation of his alleged Deism. While not all of these prayers were composed by Washington (though most were), that he used them is indisputable, as they are taken directly from his public and private writings. We have organized them by topic for convenience. The sheer magnitude of the number of prayers, coupled with the expansive topics included in his prayers, give substantial credence to the universal testimony of Washington’s contemporaries of his practice of corporate and private prayer
This underscores how misplaced contemporary scholars have been in claiming that Washington was a man of lukewarm religious faith.
All the cited prayers can are from the Writings of George Washington edited by John C. Fitzpatrick and found online at http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/washington/fitzpatrick/
1. His Order for a Custom Made Prayer Book
1.1 INVOICE OF GOODS TO BE SHIPD BY ROBERT CARY & CO. FOR THE USE OF GEO. WASHINGTON, POTOMACK RIVER, VIRGINIA, VIZ.
July 18, 1771. A Prayr. Book with the new Version of Psalms and good plain type, covd. with red Moroco., to be 7 Inchs. long 4? wide, and as thin as possible for the greatr. ease of caryg. in the Pocket.
2. His Culture – Prayer and Fasting
2.1 DIARY: June 1, 1774. Went to Church and fasted all day.” [This was in keeping with the burgesses’ vote to fast in support of Massachusetts when the Boston Port bill began.] [Thomas Jefferson wrote:] The day of fasting was observed throughout the colony. The people met generally with anxiety and alarm in their countenances, and the effect of the day, through the whole colony, was like a shock of electricity, arousing every man, and placing him erect and solidly on his center. (See Jefferson’s Works, vol. I, p. 7.) [Moncure D. Conway noted] The fast was obeyed throughout Virginia with such rigor and scruples, as to interdict the tasting of food between the rising and setting sun. With the remembrance of the King [Minis try?], horror was associated; in churches, as well as in the circles of social conversation, he seemed to stalk like the arch-enemy of mankind. [See Moncure D. Conway’s Biography of Edmund Randolph. Note in WGW.]
