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" ... gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. "
Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century - Page 91
edited by - 1917 - 685 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 600 pages
...subject of this exquisite viand, it would be profanation to appeal to any one but Charles Lamb — ' Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis,...it to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniorum. ' I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — these hobbydehoys — but a...
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...object, that pretext and excuse might be found in BOAST PIO. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilit, I will maintain it to be the most delicate...
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Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - Essays - 1835 - 440 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. • Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST FIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

1835 - 430 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIO. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundui editilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate...
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The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature, Volume 3

English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST pin. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate...
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The Prose Works of Charles Lamb ...: Elia. First series

Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 362 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps dbsoniorum. I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig arid pork — these hobbydehoys...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 55

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 602 pages
...subject of this exquisite viand, it would be profanation to appeal to any one but Charles Lamb — ' Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — yrinceps obsoniorum. ' 1 speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — these...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch ...

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind^ Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST FIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate...
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind • Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus tdibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate —princeps obsoniorum. I speak not of your grown...
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Cruikshank at Home: A New Family Album of Endless Entertainment, Volumes 1-2

Robert Cruikshank - English wit and humor - 1845 - 716 pages
...arts, make their way among mankind. Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so...ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edililis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate —prineeps obsoniorum, Behold him, while he is...
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