 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
 | 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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