“I introduce thee to the world, the flesh and the devil, that thou mayest triumph over all awkwardness, and grow up in all politeness; that thou mayest be acceptable to the ladies, celebrated for refined breeding, able to speak French and read Italian, invested with some public supernumerary character in a foreign Court, get into Parliament (perhaps into the Privy Council), and that, when thou art dead, the letters written to thy children, may be published, in seven editions, for the instruction of all sober families.
“Ye are to take care that this child, when he is of a proper age, be brought to Court, to be confirmed.”
The Creed of St. Athanasius.
Quicunque Vult.—(Shanghai Version.)
I. Whosoever will gain his cause, before all things it is necessary, that he understand the working of the Supreme Court.
II. Which if a man do not understand, without doubt he shall lose his dollars everlastingly.
III. And the condition of the Supreme Court is this, That there be one Judge, one assistant Judge, and one Law Secretary.
IV. The parties to a suit confound the persons, and the Court divideth the substance.
V. The Judge is incomprehensible, the Assistant Judge is more incomprehensible, and the Law Secretary most incomprehensible.