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" I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbydehoys — but a young and tender suckling— under a moon old — guiltless as yet of the sty — with no original speck of the amor... "
The Quarterly Review - Page 469
1836
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A New Dictionary of Quotations from the Greek, Latin, and Modern Languages

1869 - 534 pages
...roast pig to be the most delicate, princeps obsoniorum [the very prince of dishes, articles of food] . I speak not of your grown porkers, things between pig and pork, those hobbydehoys, but a young and tender suckling, under a moon old, guiltless as yet of the sty,...
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Hours at Home, Volume 9

1869 - 588 pages
...and intellectual author of "Elia," but with a difference in the object of our eulogy, we say — " Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis,...to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniorum." Nor do we demur when he further stylcth his 'pet viand, with its " tender blossoming of fat, the! cream...
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A Hand-book of English Literature Intended for the Use of High Schools, as ...

Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 pages
...could be assigned in favor of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in Roast Pig. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis,...will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniontm. I speak not of your grown porkers, — things between pig and pork, — those hobbydehoys,...
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Elia. The last essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1871 - 484 pages
...could be assigned in favor of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — prineeps obsoniorum. I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...be assigned in favour of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — princfps obsoniontm. — The Essays of Elia. MRS. BATTLE'S OPINIONS ON CARDS AND WHIST. " A CLEAR...
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Foods

Edward Smith - 1873 - 540 pages
...delicacy and richness of flavour which is perhaps unsurpassed. Charles Lamb wrote of it as follows : ' Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis,...will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obsoniumS But, although he may be quite correct, this food is not one of the established delicacies...
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Foods

Edward Smith - 1873 - 546 pages
...delicacy and richness of flavour which is perhaps unsurpassed. Charles Lamb wrote of it as follows : ' Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis,...will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obsonium.' But, although he may be quite correct, this food is not one of the established delicacies...
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A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig

Charles Lamb - 1874 - 24 pages
...culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in ROAST PIG. A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate—-princeps obsoniorum. I speak not of your grown porkers—things between pig and pork—those...
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The casquet of literature, a selection in poetry and prose, ed. with notes ...

Casket - 1874 - 840 pages
...in the whole nimidu* fdibilix, I will maintain it to be the most delicate — princeps obuoniorum. I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbledehoys — but a young and tender suckling — under a moon old — guiltless as yet...
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Little Classics, Volume 5

Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 224 pages
...delicacies in the whole mntidus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate, — princeps I speak not of your grown porkers — things between pig and pork — those hobbydehoys — but a young and tender suckling — under a moon old — guiltless as yet...
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