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" ... his voice as yet not broken, but something between a childish treble, and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prceludium, of a grunt. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 469
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The Essays of Elia, Volume 1

Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pages
...under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immunditue, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or praludium of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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The Art of Dining: Or, Gastronomy and Gastronomers

Abraham Hayward - 1852 - 152 pages
...— under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty-*with no original speck of the amor immunditice, the hereditary failing of the first parent yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or praeludium of a grunt. " Behold him while he is doing — it seemeth rather a refreshing warmth than...
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The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States ..., Volume 3

James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1853 - 616 pages
...about the " hog" — your gross " bacon !" We will have none of him. " But a young and tender suckling, his voice as yet not broken, but something between...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner or praludium of a. grunt." " See him in the dish, (every one will recognize Charles Lamb,) his second...
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The Treasury of Knowledge and Library Reference

Samuel Maunder - 1853 - 478 pages
...young and tender suckling under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the stye, with his voice as not yet broken, but something between a childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or proeludium of a grunt." Elia quotes from a Chinese MS., that roast pig, like a great many other important...
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The Etymological Compendium: Or, Portfolio of Origins and Inventions

William Pulleyn - 1853 - 474 pages
...young and tender suckling under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the stye, with his voice as not yet broken, but something between a childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner, or prosludiuin of a grunt." Elia quotes from a Chinese MS., that roast pig, like a great many other important...
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Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials, Volume 2

Charles Lamb - 1855 - 798 pages
...— princeps obsoniorum. I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbydehoys — but a young and tender suckling —...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or praludium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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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
...the most delicate — princeps obsoniorum. ESSAYS OF ELIA. original speck of the amor immunditiie, the hereditary failing of the first parent yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble — the mild forerunner, or prasludium, of a grunt. He must Ic roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ale them seethed,...
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The Hog: A Treatise on the Breeds, Management, Feeding, and Medical ...

William Youatt, William Charles Linnaeus Martin - 1865 - 240 pages
...sty ; with no original speck of the amor immunditite, the hereditary failing of the first parent, as yet manifest ; his voice as yet not broken, but something...childish treble and a grumble, the mild forerunner or prceludium of a grunt. "ffe must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed...
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The Works of Charles Lamb

Charles Lamb - 1856 - 408 pages
...suckling—under a moon old — guiltle^las yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor immunditia, the hereditary failing of the first parent yet manifest...childish treble and a grumble— the mild forerunner, or pr&ludium, of a grunt. He must be roasted. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed, or...
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The Boys' and girls' companion for leisure hours, ed. by J. and M ..., Volume 1

1857 - 498 pages
...speck of the amor immunditia, the hereditary failing of the first parent, yet manifest — his voice a? yet not broken, but something between a childish treble and a grumble— the mild forerunner, or prcelttdiwn of a grunt. He mutt be roaslcd. I am not ignorant that our ancestors ate them seethed,...
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