 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...  A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... - Side 370af William Minto - 1892 - 552 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 568 sider
...will not be liable to the least objection.'* When we know Swift, such a beginning frightens us : ' I have been assured by a very knowing American of...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. 1 Oullh-er's Travels, Part 4, ch. 7, p. 837. * Ibid. Part 2, ch. 6, p. 172. * A Modest Proposal for... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 sider
...will not be liable to the least objection. ' 4 When we know Swift, such a beginning frightens us : ' I have been assured by a very knowing American of...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. 1 Gulliver's Travels, Part 4, ch. 7, p. 337. * Ibid. Part 2, ch. 6, p. 172. * A Modest Proposal for... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 sider
...will not be liable to the least objection.' * When we know Swift, such a beginning frightens us: ' I have been assured by a very knowing American of...whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I nuke no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. 1 Oultiver't Trarels, Part 4,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1872 - 660 sider
...with the tread and gaiety of an ogre.* " I have been assured," says he in the " Modest Proposal," " by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragoAt'' And taking up this pretty joke, as his way is, he argues it with... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 496 sider
...façon, le pays et euxmêmes se trouvent heureusement délivrés de tous les maux à venir '. 1. I hâve been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance...and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassée or a ragoût. I do tberefore humbly offer it to public considération that of thé hundred... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1873 - 610 sider
...nursery with the tread and gayety of an ogre.* "I have been assured," says he in the " Modest Proposal," "by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve in a ragout." And taking up this pretty joke, as his way is, he argues it with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1901 - 414 sider
...with the tread and gaiety of an ogre.* " I have been assured," says he in the " Modest Proposal," " by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I make no doubt it will equally serve hi a ragout." And taking up this pretty joke, as his way is, he argues it with... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1876 - 472 sider
...will not be liable to the least objection." * When we know Swift, such a beginning frightens us : " I have been assured by a very knowing American of...in a fricassee or a ragout. " I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1878 - 518 sider
...Bottenben; unb fo finb fie felbft unb ba« Sanb д1иЙ1ф Bon atten tommenben liebeln befreit."*) *) I have been assured by a very knowing American of...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. Unb er fcfyíiejjt mit bet foïgenbeit graufamcn Зготе: „ЗФ eiiläre in bet aufvidjtig?eit... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 sider
...the children of the Irish poor should be sold and eaten as food ! ' I have been assured,' he says, ' by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.' He goes gravely into calculations on the subject : at a year old, an infant would weigh about twenty-eight... | |
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