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" We read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effect this process might have toward intenerating... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 470
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The Works of Charles Lamb

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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The Art of Dining: Or, Gastronomy and Gastronomers

Abraham Hayward - 1852 - 152 pages
...a judicious epicure — .and for such a tomb might ba contact 'to die. • 'Ui'i !'•• \r..vt " Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing. these tender victims. We read of pigs whipped to death with soni-'rthiug of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of...
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The Works of Charles Lamb: With a Sketch of His Life and Final ..., Volume 2

Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1855 - 624 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...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...all I wished never to see the face again of that insid ious,' 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...
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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
...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...to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what effec this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and...
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The essays of Elia. A new ed

Charles Lamb - 1857 - 380 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...
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The Boys' and girls' companion for leisure hours, ed. by J. and M ..., Volume 1

1857 - 498 pages
...old grey impostor. Our ancestors were nice in thrir method of sacrificing these tender victims. Vie read of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, as we hear of any other obsolete custom. '1 he age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to inquire (in a philosophical l;gV t merely)...
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The Crimean campaign. American orators and statesmen. Journalism in France ...

Abraham Hayward - 1858 - 460 pages
...second cradle, how meek he lieth ! Wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood...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...
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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
...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...of pigs whipt to death with something of a shock, aa we hear of any other obsolete custom. The age of discipline is gone by, or it would be curious to...
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The essays of Elia. [Followed by] The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1867 - 582 pages
...above all I wished never to see the face again of that insidious, goodfor-nothing, old grey impostor. Our ancestors were nice in their method of sacrificing...to inquire (in a philosophical light merely) what eifect this process might have towards intenerating and dulcifying a substance, naturally so mild and...
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