 That the remaining hundred 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 in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a...  The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray - Pàgina 156per William Makepeace Thackeray - 1869Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | James Connolly - 1917 - 398 pàgines
...them suck plentifully in the last month so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for 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... | |
 | Robert Cortes Holliday - 1919 - 322 pàgines
...for making them beneficial to the public,' in which, gentlemen, as you know, he argued that 'a child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends,...fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.'... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1924 - 492 pàgines
...as to render them plump, and fat 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 dish, and seasoned i This is probably a Swiftian plausibility to give an air of truth to his remarks. Certain... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pàgines
...them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child anly seasoned with a little pepper or salt, will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.... | |
 | Philip Roth - 1992 - 316 pàgines
...who shared his concern for Ireland's misery. Imagine how this went down in polite society: "A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends;...fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable Dish, and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter."... | |
 | Deane W. Curtin, Lisa M. Heldke - 1992 - 412 pàgines
...them Suck plentifully in the last Month, so as to render them Plump, and Fat for a good Table. A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends,...fore or hind Quarter will make a reasonable Dish, and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.... | |
 | Linda Bannister, Ellen Davis Conner, Robert Liftig, Luann Reed-Siegel - 1994 - 270 pàgines
...render them plump, and fat for a good Table. A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for 45 Friends; and when the Family dines alone, the fore or hind Quarter will make a reasonable Dish; and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt, will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter.... | |
 | Evelyn B. Pluhar - 1995 - 396 pàgines
...old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled . . . when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter."... | |
 | Gary Westfahl, George Edgar Slusser, Eric S. Rabkin - 1996 - 272 pàgines
...cannibalism will laugh heartily (or nervously) at being informed by the Modest Proposer that "A Child will make two Dishes at an Entertainment for Friends;...fore or hind Quarter will make a reasonable Dish, and seasoned with a little Pepper or Salt will be very good Boiled on the fourth Day, especially in Winter"... | |
 | Andre Breton - 1997 - 384 pàgines
...them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump, and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends,...fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.... | |
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