DIES IR^E DIETETICS. 



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eeason. It is one of the most direct routes to Paris 

 from London. The country around Dieppe is very fer- 

 tile and beautiful, forming part of the Pays de Caux. 

 The number of inhabitants is about 20,000, who are 

 chiefly dependent on the commerce of the port. 



DIES IRJE ; the first words of a Latin hymn, de- 

 scribing the final judgment of the world. It is as- 

 cribed to Thomas de Coelano. a Minorite, who lived 

 in the thirteenth century. It is a beautiful poem, 

 belonging to those early Christian songs, which com- 

 bine the smoothness of rhyme with the gravity of 

 Latin verse. This powerful poem makes a part of 

 the requiem (the mass for the souls of the dead) ; and 

 it is one of the highest and most difficult tasks for the 

 composer to compose music adapted to the awful 

 solemnity of the subject. Whoever has heard Mo- 

 zart's Tuba mirum spargens sonum, without being 

 reminded of the trump which shall echo through the 

 tombs on the judgmentxlay ? Goethe has happily in- 

 troduced a few stanzas of this poem in his Faust. 

 As this hymn constitutes the chief part of the requiem, 

 and is, at the same time, a fine example of a whole 

 class of poetry little known in this Protestant coun- 

 try, we here quote it at length. 



Dies irae, dies ilia 

 Solvet sieclum in favilla, 

 Teste David cum Sibylla. 

 Quantus tremor est futurug, 

 Quando Judex est venturus, 

 Cuncta stricte discussants 1 

 Tuba mirum spargens sonum 

 Per sepulchra regionum, 

 Coget omnes ante thronum. 

 Mors stupebit, et natura, 

 Cum resurget creatura, 

 Judicanti respousura. 

 Liber scriptug proferetur, 

 In quo totum continetur, 

 UnUe miindus judicetur. 

 Judex ergo cum sedebit 

 Quidquid latet apparebit, 

 Nil inultum remanebit. 



Quid sum miser tune dicturus 

 Quern patronum rogaturus, 

 Cum vix Justus sit securus ? 



Rex tremendae majestatis, 

 Qui salvandos salvas gratis, 

 Salva me, fons pietatis. 

 Recordare, Jesu pie, 

 Quod sum causa tuae vise, 

 Ne me perdas ilia die. 

 Qu;erens me sedisti lassus, 

 Redemisti crucem passus, 

 Tantus labor non sit cassus. 

 Juste judex ultionis, 

 Donum fac remissionis, 

 Ante diem rationis. 

 Ingemieco tanquam reus, 

 Culpa rubet vultusmeus : 

 Supplicant! parce, Deus. 

 Qui Mariam absolvisti, 

 Kt latronem exaudisti, 

 Mibi quoque spem dedisti. 

 Preces meas non sunt dignn 1 , 

 Sed tu, bone, fac benigne, 

 Ne perenni cremer igne. 

 Inter oves locum prasta, 

 Et ab h:edis me sequestra, 

 Statuens in parte dextra. 

 Confutatig maledictis, 

 Plammis acribus addictis 

 Voca me cum benedictix. 

 Oro snpplex, et acclinia, 

 Cor contritum quasi cinig, 

 Gere curam mei finis. 

 Lacrymosa dies ilia 

 Qua reeurget ex favilla. 

 Jndicandus homo reus, 

 Huic ergo parce Deus. 

 Pie Jesu, Domine, dona ei requiem. Amen. 



DIET. GERMAN. 

 fetleraty. 



See Germany and German Con- 



DIET OF HUNGARY. See Hungary. 

 DIET OF POLAND. See Poland. 

 DIET DRINK ; an alterative decoction employed 

 daily in considerable quantities, at least from a p'mt 

 to a quart. The decoction of sarsaparilla and m eze- 

 reon, the Lisbon diet drink, is the most common and 

 most useful. 



DIET ALIA ACTA ; the records of the H unga 

 rian diet, written in Latin, in which language the 

 discussions of the diet take place. The discussi ons 

 are not public, and the records are only given to 

 members of the diet, and a few other persons tiirough 

 them. 



DIETETICS, in medical writings ; is the due 

 classification of food, as respects the treatment and 

 prevention of diseases. On a general survey of the 

 several nations of the globe, it has been observed 

 that mankind enjoy health and strength when nour- 

 ished upon the most opposite kinds of food : provided 

 no great excess be committed in its quantity ; and, 

 also, that its quality be properly suited to the heat of 

 the climate. Hence the natives of Hindostan, who 

 feed entirely upon rice, and milk, ami vegetables, are 

 equally healthy with the Esquimaux, and Laplanders, 

 and other savages of the frozen regions of the globe, 

 whose food consists entirely in the flesh of animals 

 and fishes : and since Providence has ordained that 

 fruit and vegetables should abound under the torrid 

 zone, and denied them to the sterile rocks around 

 the poles, we are taught by this natural distribution, 

 as well as by our own experience, that cooling fruits 

 and vegetables are best adapted to the heats of sum- 

 mer, and animal and stimulating food to the severe 

 rigours of winter. The natives, therefore, of the more 

 temperate regions, are enabled to indulge in a greater 

 variety of food, both animal and vegetable, and are, 

 in consequence, endowed with greater bodily and 

 mental powers, and the enjoyment of a longer period 

 of life. For few Hindoos or Laplanders ever attain 

 the age of forty years, while many of the inhabitants 

 of Europe and America live upwards of a century. 

 In a state of health, then, it is clear that we need 

 not draw many hair-breadth distinctions as to the 

 superior salubrity of the several sorts of diet. Our 

 greatest care should be to attend more to the quan- 

 tity than the quality of our food ; for upon that hinges 

 the enjoyment of our health and spirits. It was the 

 opinion of the late Dr Fothergill, that more persons 

 die in England from hard eating than from hard 

 drinking, and that excesses in the former were more 

 dangerous than in the latter particular. And the 

 poet has well expressed this by saying, that 

 The first physicians by debauch were made, 

 Excess began, and sloth sustains the trade. 



There is no doubt that great moderation, both in eat- 

 ing and drinking, is one of the surest means of pre- 

 serving health, as well as of assisting us to regain it 

 when lost. Early habits of self-command, therefore, 

 in the regulation of the appetite, are of the greatest^ 

 importance to all who would enjoy good health and 

 long life. And those persons who have been most 

 remarkable for either, have generally been contented 

 with two moderate meals a-day ; which are certainly 

 quite sufficient during a state of health. In this 

 country, the breakfast generally consists of tea, 

 coflee, or cocoa, with a certain proportion of bread 

 and butter. Those who indulge in field sports, or use 

 violent exercise, may with safety eat animal food, 

 and eggs in addition, but persons with delicate di- 

 gestive powers, or who lead a sedentary life, cannot 

 with safety or comfort eat animal food constantly to 

 breakfast. Buttered toast, too, is very often perni- 

 cious to females with weak stomachs, and is frequent- 

 ly the cause of giddiness, indigestion, and sick head- 

 aches. Where tea disagrees, an infusion of the 

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