 | Gerald Patrick Moriarty - 1893 - 388 pages
...100,000 may, at a year old, be offered in sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for...and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarters will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 580 pages
...100,000 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...for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertamment foi friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter wiil mak< a reasonable... | |
 | William Minto - 1895 - 584 pages
...the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them sack plentifully in the last month, so as to render them...table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment foi friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 510 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 place... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 464 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 render them plump, and fit for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and, when the... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 378 pages
...old, be offered in sale as articles of food to persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...as to render them plump and fat for a good table. I have reckoned," he says, " upon a medium that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and in... | |
 | Thomas Costley - 1897 - 404 pages
...old, be offered in sale as articles of food to persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom, always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully...as to render them plump and fat for a good table. I have reckoned," he says, " upon a medium that a child just born will weigh twelve pounds, and in... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1905 - 478 pages
...inhabited by cannibals. [TS] 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 render them plump, arid fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends, and when the... | |
 | Vida Dutton Scudder - 1898 - 346 pages
...100,000 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...as to render them plump and fat for a good table. . . . " I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 414 pages
...fat for a good table! "A child," says his Reverence, " will make two dishes at an entertainment for 5 friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore 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 place... | |
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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... 
