Table Traits: With Something on ThemR. Bentley, 1854 - 547 A history of eating. |
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... says sneeringly , " Whether Christianity will be laid aside I cannot say . As nothing of the spirit is left , the forms , I think , signify very little . Surely , it is not an age of morality and principle ; does it import whether ...
... says sneeringly , " Whether Christianity will be laid aside I cannot say . As nothing of the spirit is left , the forms , I think , signify very little . Surely , it is not an age of morality and principle ; does it import whether ...
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... says of him , that he once hap- pened to fix his eyes on the face of a woman ; but imme- diately reflecting that this was a temptation , he ran to a pond , and leaped up to the neck into the water , which was then as cold as ice , to ...
... says of him , that he once hap- pened to fix his eyes on the face of a woman ; but imme- diately reflecting that this was a temptation , he ran to a pond , and leaped up to the neck into the water , which was then as cold as ice , to ...
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... says , that " Disorder breakfasts with Plenty , dines with Poverty , sups with Misery , and sleeps with Death . " It is an unpleasant division of the day , but it is truly described , as far as it goes . On the other hand , it is not to ...
... says , that " Disorder breakfasts with Plenty , dines with Poverty , sups with Misery , and sleeps with Death . " It is an unpleasant division of the day , but it is truly described , as far as it goes . On the other hand , it is not to ...
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... says , will not only fortify the traveller for a lengthened period , but to the sedentary , the bilious , and the dyspeptic , its adop- tion will afford more relief than the best prescription of a physician . But this breakfast must be ...
... says , will not only fortify the traveller for a lengthened period , but to the sedentary , the bilious , and the dyspeptic , its adop- tion will afford more relief than the best prescription of a physician . But this breakfast must be ...
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... says , that a rod thrust into the soil at night would be found budding before morning . And this ancient story , I may notice , has been the venerable father of a large family of similar jokes among our Transatlantic cousins . The ...
... says , that a rod thrust into the soil at night would be found budding before morning . And this ancient story , I may notice , has been the venerable father of a large family of similar jokes among our Transatlantic cousins . The ...
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Strona 425 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him: and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Strona 67 - In Covent Garden to-night, going to fetch home my wife, I stopped at the great Coffee-house 1 there, where I never was before : where Dryden, the poet, I knew at Cambridge, and all the wits of the town, and Harris the player, and Mr. Hoole, of our College. And, had I had time then, or could at other times, it will be good coming thither, for there, I perceive, is very witty and pleasant discourse.
Strona 252 - Mary's days to wonder; but chiefly when they saw that large diet was used in many of these so homely cottages, insomuch that one of no small reputation amongst them said after this manner: These English, quoth he, have their houses made of sticks and dirt, but they fare commonly so well as the king.
Strona 238 - We have drinks also brewed with several herbs, and roots, and spices, yea, with several fleshes and white meats, whereof some of the drinks are such as they are in effect meat and drink both, so that divers, especially in age, do desire to live with them with little or no meat or bread : and, above all, we strive to have drinks of extreme thin parts, to insinuate...
Strona 239 - ... whereof some of the drinks are such as they are in effect meat and drink both, so that divers, especially in age, do desire to live with them with little or no meat or bread. And above all we strive to have drinks of extreme thin parts, to insinuate into the body, and yet without all biting, sharpness, or fretting; insomuch as some of them put upon the back of your hand, will with a little stay pass through to the palm, and yet taste mild to the mouth. "We have also waters, -which we ripen in...
Strona 389 - tis a fast, to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto the hungry soul. It is to fast from strife, From old debate And hate To circumcise thy life.
Strona 255 - I expected musique, but there was none but only trumpets and drums, which displeased me. The dinner, it seems, is made by the Mayor and two Sheriffs for the time being, the Lord Mayor paying one half, and they the other. And the whole, Proby says, is reckoned to come to about 7 or ^800 at most.
Strona 442 - Henry, complaining, with many tears and much doleful lamentation, that the bishop of Winchester, who was also their abbot, had cut off three dishes from their table. "How many has he left you?" said the king. "Ten only," replied the disconsolate monks. "I myself," exclaimed the king, "never have more than three; and I enjoin your bishop to reduce you to the same number.
Strona 58 - Besides the modern advantage of coffeehouses in this great city, before which men knew not how to be acquainted but with their own relations or societies, I might add that I come of a longaevous race, by which means I have wiped some feathers off the wings of time for several generations, which does reach high...
Strona 382 - The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; The devil was well, the devil a monk was he.