 | 1822 - 694 pages
...above all I wished never again to see the face ofthat insidious, goodfor-nothing, old grey impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing these tender victims. We read ot pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age... | |
 | 1835 - 430 pages
...above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, goodfcr-nothing, old, gray impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing...effect this process might have towards intenerating and duleifying a substance, naturally so mild and duleet as the flesh of young pigs. It looks like refining... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...animal, is man justified in using that method of putting the animal to death." I forget the decision.'* ' Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing...to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what eilect this process might have towards inU-nerating and dulcifying a substance naturally so mild and... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...sepulchre in the grateful stomach of a judicious epicure — and for such a tomb might be content to die. ' Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing these tender victims. \Ve read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom.... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, good-for-nothing, old, gray impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing these tender victims. We read of pigs whipped to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
...insidious, good-for-nothing, old grey impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing those tender victims. We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1850 - 406 pages
...above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, good-for-nothing, old grey impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing...custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would he curious to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effect this process might have towards... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pages
...insidious, good-for-nothing, old greyimpostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing those tender victims. We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pages
...above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, good-for-nothing, old grey imposter. he-relative is hopeless. "He is an old humourist,"..." and affects to go threadbare. His circumstances inteneratmg and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. It... | |
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... she would feel that I had never had a bit of it in my mouth at last — and I blamed my impertinent spirit of alms-giving, and out-of-place hypocrisy of goodness; and above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, good-for-nothing,... 
