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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 English Essayists: A Comprehensive Selection from the Works of the Great ...

Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages as been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained...Johnson. The characteristic faults of his style are Cooks' Holiday. The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling (which...
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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Charles Lamb - 1888 - 64 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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English Prose: From Maundevile to Thackeray

Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 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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The Everyday Book ; Or, a Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular ...

William Hone - 1888 - 876 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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Werner's Readings and Recitations, Issue 1

1890 - 274 pages
...which my friend 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...age by the term " Chofang," literally the " Cook's Holiday." The manuscript goes on to say, that the art of roasting, or rather broiling, was accidentally...
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The Essays of Elia: 1st Series

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 246 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 I...
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The Essays of Elia and Eliana

Charles Lamb - 1890 - 584 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 living animal, just as they do m Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second...
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Living Thoughts in Words that Burn, from Poet, Sage and Humorist

Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 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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Charles Lamb's Essays

Charles Lamb - 1892 - 604 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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Cathcart's Literary Reader: A Manual of English Literature : Being Typical ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...which my friend 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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