A Handy Book on Dinners: Dinners and Diners at Home and Abroad |
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A Handy Book On Dinners. Dinners And Diners At Home And Abroad Edward Litt L Blanchard Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2023 |
A Handy Book on Dinners. Dinners and Diners at Home and Abroad Edward Litt L Blanchard Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 36 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Seite 59 - Hail, MEMORY, hail ! in thy exhaustless mine From age to age unnumbered treasures shine ! Thought and her shadowy brood thy call obey, And Place and Time are subject to thy sway ! Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone ; The only pleasures we can call our own.
Seite 37 - But man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day ; He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey...
Seite 22 - It is moreover true, that every animal eats as much as it can procure, and as much as it can hold. A cow eats but to sleep, and sleeps but to eat; and, not content with eating all day long, " twice it slays the slain," and eats its dinners o'er again.