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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... "
The Republic of Letters: A Weekly Republication of Standard Literature - Page 55
1835
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The essays of Elia. A new ed

Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 pages
...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...where he designates a kind of golden age by the term of Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting,...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1857 - 564 pages
...the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living an i 111:1), just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucms, in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age...
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The every-day book: or The guide to the year, Volume 1

William Hone - 1859 - 882 pages
...origin, when flesh was eaten uncooked, and affirms that " the poriod is not obscurely hinted at by the great Confucius, in the second chapter of his ' Mundane...kind of golden age by the term Chofang, literally the cooks' holiday." He premises " broiling to be the elder brother of roasting," and relates on the authority...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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...of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which...
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Works: Including His Most Intesesting Letters

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...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...of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which...
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The Essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1894 - 464 pages
...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...of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which...
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Moxon's standard penny readings [ed. by T. Hood]., Volume 1

Moxon Edward and co - 208 pages
...the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, i just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period...where he designates a kind of golden age by the term of Cho-fang, literally the Cook's Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting,...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing it or biting it from the living animal, just as they...golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cook's Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, (which I take...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...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...of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather boiling (which I...
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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pages
...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...of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which...
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