tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post4297691282208937777..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: Thane Yost and the will to winRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-50284175356374207482014-09-02T06:06:45.323-07:002014-09-02T06:06:45.323-07:00Sounds a bit like the older Methodist-ish "pr...Sounds a bit like the older Methodist-ish "prepared to live, prepared to die" thing. <em>Parents and Their Children Meeting at the Day of Judgment</em> (1811) <a href="http://books.google.es/books?id=3kAwAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22prepared%20to%20live%22%20%22prepared%20to%20die%22&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="nofollow">blames that</a> on "the amiable and pious Cowper", but I can find no trace, apart from formulations such as "<a href="http://books.google.es/books?id=n00JAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA99#v=onepage&q=%22live%20or%20die%22&f=false" rel="nofollow">Whether I live or die</a>, I desire it may be in His Glory, and it must be to my happiness", which I guess could be traced back a lot further.The Singing Organ-Grinderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04487387301124491134noreply@blogger.com