 Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it) without the...  The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular ... - Page 1211by William Hone - 1830Full view - About this book
 | George William McClelland - English Literature (selections: Extracts, Etc.) - 1925 - 1180 pages
...up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of ht, And beauty and length of days," And death beneath...might endure for a span With travail and heavy so Locke,1 who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked... | |
 | Rollo La Verne Lyman, Howard Copeland Hill - Readers - 1925 - 736 pages
...until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might...necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or... | |
 | Carl Henry Grabo - English prose literature - 1927 - 544 pages
...up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the...necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or... | |
 | Leroy E. Armstrong - 1916 - 408 pages
...up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the...process of time, says my manuscript, a sage arose, who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burned,... | |
 | Melvin Everett Haggerty - American literature - 1927 - 584 pages
...up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the...process of time, says my manuscript. a sage arose, k'ke our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might... | |
 | 1894 - 760 pages
...delicious was burnt pig discovered to be that everybody fell to setting his house on fire to obtain it. " Thus this custom of firing houses continued, till in process of time a sage arose, like our Locke, who made a discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other... | |
 | Recitations - 1913 - 624 pages
...up shop. People built slighter and slighter every day, until it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the...of firing houses continued, till in process of time a sage arose who made the discovery that the flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1879 - 372 pages
...it was feared that the very science of architecture would in no long time be lost to the world. 17. Thus this custom of firing houses continued till in...necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. 18. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Koasting by the string or spit came in a century... | |
 | Robert L. Wolke, Marlene Parrish - Cooking - 2002 - 380 pages
...experienced by mankind. houses with pigs inside. Eventually, "in the process of time a sage arose . . . who made a discovery, that the flesh of swine, or...necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. " Right up until the beginning of the twentieth century, we humans continued to build fires whenever... | |
 | Denise Gigante - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 264 pages
...(perhaps a linguistic stutter towards barbarian) sets fire to his father's hut, making the accidental "discovery, that the flesh of swine, or indeed of...animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they called it)" ( WCL i:iz3). Having destroyed the hut and the nine pigs in it, he stoops down to feel for signs of... | |
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