 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 334 pages
...may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom ; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especiallyin winter. I have reckoned upon a medinm, that a child just born will weigh 1 2 pounds, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 598 pages
...may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom -, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to rentier them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 376 pages
...thousand may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish; and, sea koneil with a little pepper and salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially iq... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...calculations on the subject : at ÿ year old, fin infant would weigh about twenty-eight pounds; it would + dined nlone, the fore or hind quarter would make a reasonable dish, and, seasoned with a little pepper... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1837 - 650 pages
...child," says he," will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and, when the family dineth alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish ; and, seasoned with a little pepper and salt, will be very good boiled, on the fourth day, especially in winter. ... I grant," continues... | |
 | 1849 - 614 pages
...for salo to persons of quality, as articles of food : ' A child that is plump and fit for the table will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends,...reasonable dish ; and seasoned with a little pepper and salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day !' The mother, he ascertains by calculation, will... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1853 - 332 pages
...the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table ! " A child," says his reverence, "will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hindquarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on; and, the subject being so delightful that he cannot... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1854 - 306 pages
...the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table ! " A child," says his reverence, "will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hindquarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on ; and, the subject being so delightful that he... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1858 - 360 pages
...the last month, so as to render it plump and fat for a good table ! " A child," says his reverence, " will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends...or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish," and so on; and, the subject being so delightful that he can't leave it — he proceeds to recommend, in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe - 1859 - 686 pages
...quality and fortune through the kingdom :' always advising the mother to let them suck pK-nti, fully in the last month, so as to render them plump and...a good table. |A child will make two dishes at an entcrtninmriJJtfor friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind qn' make a reasonable... | |
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A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish... 
