I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London that a young, healthy child well nursed is, at a year old, . a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that... Essays, English and American, with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations - Seite 141910 - 485 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 Seiten
...be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 Seiten
...to the -^ least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing Ame- ,...r rican of my acquaintance in London, that a young . ^ healthy child, well nursed,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer it to publick consideration,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 314 Seiten
...be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed,...food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and 1 make no doubt that it will equally serve in % filcascc, or a ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 506 Seiten
...be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled} and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration,... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 610 Seiten
...be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child, well nursed,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration,... | |
| Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 Seiten
...the poor people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country;"!. e."thatayounghealthy child, well nursed. is at a year old a most delicious,...food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled." — See his works, vol. viii, p. 299. The palidness and shrinking of the features, which sometimes... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...and eaten as food ! ' I have been assured,' he says, 'by a very knowing American of my acquaintance In London, that a young healthy child, well nursed,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.' Fie goes gravel}' into calculations on the... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1850 - 50 Seiten
...Proposal for Eating Children," "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance, that a young, healthy child, well nursed, is at a...boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragout.'1'' What the old Cynic said in horrible sport, might be applied in sober earnest to the taste... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 Seiten
...be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration... | |
| William Lambe - 1850 - 280 Seiten
...people in Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country," is not only groundless, viz., " that a young healthy child, well nursed, is at a year...food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled." Some animals devour their own offspring ; and if we do not the same, it is not because their flesh... | |
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