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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... "
The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The four Georges and The English ... - Page 147
by William Makepeace Thackeray - 1885
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Drapier's letters [etc

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 448 pages
...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, that a young healthy...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,...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's ..., Volume 9

Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 442 pages
...will not be liable to the -^ least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing Ame- ,...r rican of my acquaintance in London, that a young . ^ healthy...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,...
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The Works, Volume 13

Jonathan Swift - 1803 - 314 pages
...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, that a young healthy...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...
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. ...: With Notes ..., Volume 8

Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 506 pages
...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, that a young healthy...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,...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Tracts relative to Ireland. The drapier's ...

Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...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, that a young healthy...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,...
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On the Conduct of Man to Inferior Animals: On the Primeval State of Man ...

Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...poor should be sold and eaten as food ! ' I have been assured,' he says, 'by a very knowing American ust( + that it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout.' Fie goes gravel}' into calculations on the...
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Macaulay on Scotland [in his History of England] a critique [by H. Miller ...

Hugh Miller - 1850 - 50 pages
...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...
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The Works of Jonathan Swift: Containing Interesting and Valuable ..., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...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, that a young healthy...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...
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Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma, and Other ...

William Lambe - Diet in disease - 1850 - 280 pages
...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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