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" MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period... "
Life, Letters, and Writings - Page 326
by Charles Lamb - 1882
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Macleod's First text-book of elocution

Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...would express the utmost contempt of the whole affair. THE ORIGIN OF ROAST PIG. — (Charles Lamb.) MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend...seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing it or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not...
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The Essays of Elia: First series

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 248 pages
...thon pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks, and mumping tones, think them players. You...whether they are feigned or not. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST-PIG. MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain...
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Essays of Elia, and Eliana. With a memoir by Barry Cornwall, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 444 pages
...thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks, and mumping tones, think them players. You...not certainly tell whether they are feigned or not. [" Pray God, your honour, relieve me," said a poor beadswoman to my friend L • one day: "I have seen...
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Poems and Essays

Charles Lamb - Poetry - 1879 - 672 pages
...thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks and mumping tones, think them players. You pay your money to see a comedian feign these tilings, which, concerning these poor people, thou canst not certainly tell whether they are feigned...
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The Complete Works of Charles Lamb: Containing His Letters, Essays, Poems, Etc

Charles Lamb - 1879 - 732 pages
...thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit я, comedian feign these things, which, concerning these poor people, thou canst not certainly tell...
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Moffatt's explanatory readers. Primer 1,2; standard 4-6. [With] Home lesson book

Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 414 pages
...•i-mul-ta'-ne-ous pre-mon'-i-to-ry re-trib'-u-to-ry an-te-di-lu'-vian aroh'-i-tec-ture in-iq'-ui-ty MANKIND, says a Chinese manuscript which my friend...seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biling it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. The manuscript goes on...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 826 pages
...governess takes upon her lo correct her when she has mistaken the piano for a harpischord. T/ie Origin of Roast Pig. Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to rend and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it...
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The Works of Charles Lamb ...

Charles Lamb - 1881 - 472 pages
...thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks, and mumping tones, think them players. You...concerning these poor people, thou canst not certainly tell wheth ?r they are feigned or not. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. MANKHNTD, says a Chinese manuscript,...
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The English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

English essays - 1881 - 578 pages
...indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks and mumping tones, think them players. Yon witch all over the country; that her lips were observed...was not a switch about her house which her neighbou A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging...
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At home in Paris, Volume 2

William Blanchard Jerrold - 1884 - 346 pages
...thou pleasest) that thou hast relieved an indigent bachelor. When they come with their counterfeit looks and mumping tones, think them players. You pay...not certainly tell whether they are feigned or not." Since Lamb's time we have not made much progress towards the suppression of begging in the streets,...
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