 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...  Geschichte der englischen Literatur: Bd. Das klassische Zeitalter, bearb ... - Page 380by Hippolyte Taine - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 506 pages
...now therefore humbly 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...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, that of the hundred... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 334 pages
...now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will uot be liable to the least objection. I have been assured by a very knowing American of...it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout. ' I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 508 pages
...now therefore humbly 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...boiled ; and I make no doubt that it will equally sense in a frieassee, or a ragout. • . I do therefore humbly offer it to public considerations that... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - English literature - 1814 - 610 pages
...now therefore humbly 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...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 598 pages
...now therefore humbly 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...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration, that of the hundred and twenty thousand children... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...the children of the Irish poor should be sold and eaten as food ! ' I have been assured,' he says, ambers Fie goes gravel}' into calculations on the subject : at я year old, fin infant would weigh about twenty-eight... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 900 pages
...now therefore humbly 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...it will equally serve in a fricassee or a ragout. I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the 120,000 children already computed,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1850 - 50 pages
...suffered in the cause of truth and liberty. Dean Swift says, in the "Modest 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 year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome... | |
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