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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not ... - Page 86
by Jonathan Swift - 1850
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Nineteenth Century English Prose: Critical Essays

Thomas H. Dickinson, Frederick William Roe - 1908 - 506 pages
...fat for a good table! "A child," says his Reverence, "will make two dishes at an enter- 30 tainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the...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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Labour in Irish History

James Connolly - 1910 - 242 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...friends, 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...
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Essays, English and American, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations

1910 - 485 pages
...in 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...
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Thackeray's English Humorists of the Eighteenth Century

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1911 - 278 pages
...in 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 cannot leave it, he proceeds to recommend, in place...
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The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the ...

Upton Sinclair - 1915 - 984 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...as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. . . . I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise .men,...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 566 pages
...baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. . . . A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for...when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter [120 will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt wijl be very good boiled...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...dishes at an entertainment for friends ; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter [120 a 23 2 233 good boiled on the fourth day, especially in •winter. I have reckoned upon a medium that...
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Labour in Ireland: Labour in Irish History : the Re-conquest of ..., Volume 1

James Connolly - 1917 - 392 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...friends, 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...
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Jonathan Swift: Selections

Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 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...for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an ertertainment for friends, and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable...
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English Satire: An Anthology

Norman Furlong - 1946 - 196 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. Swift can now start drilling as hard as he likes; for he has got us to accept his major premise that...
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