 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - 586 pagina’s
...the public. The scheme is, that the children should be sold and eaten as food ! 'I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a yonng healthy child, well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Stanley Lane-Poole - 1884 - 342 pagina’s
...propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1884 - 334 pagina’s
...propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...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 Makepeace Thackeray - 1885 - 572 pagina’s
...caresses it. Mr. Dean has no such softness, and enters the nursery with the tread and gaiety of anjogre.*) "I have been assured ", says he in the " Modest Proposal...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,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagina’s
...*I have been assured by n very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young hculthy enrichment, that the Essays belong most to literature....few are more generally read. 'These, of all my wo He enters gravely into calculation: 'A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1885 - 1108 pagina’s
...assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in Louton, that a young healthy child, well nnrsed, is, at a year old, a most delicious, nourishing, and...whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and I nuke no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. 1 GvBiver't Travelt, Part 4, ch.... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1886 - 402 pagina’s
...propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London,...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... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 632 pagina’s
...his suggestion. He has inquired into the facts; and finds that a well-grown child, of a year old, is a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled ; and he makes no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. The charge for nourishing... | |
 | Howard Williams, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope - 1886 - 634 pagina’s
...his suggestion. He has inquired into the facts; and finds that a well-grown child, of a year old, is a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or builed ; and he makes no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. The charge for... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1888 - 388 pagina’s
...circumstantials with the utmost gravity. He had, he says, consulted an American friend, who told him ' that a young healthy child well nursed is, at a year...wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked or boiled'. Whereupon he recommends the practice of rearing babies for the market; setting forth in minute detail... | |
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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... 
