Читать книгу The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 286, December 8, 1827 - Various - Страница 9

(For the Mirror.)

Since lately we have had a great deal of prevarication in our courts of justice about receiving the oaths of deists, &c., I have thought it meet to furnish the MIRROR with an account of the first usage of the words, "So help me God." The word oath is a corruption of the Saxon eoth