Volume 1

The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and good living adapted to all ranks of society, from the palace to the cottage / By F. Crell ... and W. M. Wallace, Esq., assisted by a Committee of scientific gentlemen.

  • Crell, A. F.
Date:
1824-1827
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    . 1 THE FAMILY ORACLE. ON THE SCIENCE OF GOOD LIVING. [Communicated by an Amateur.] It has always puzzled me exceedingly to nu*me good-eating—the tabular pleasures, in a ®w!t gourmand—being so often made the ^“ce to :i’l “supnrnt of We ™ delicious nourishment, ought ode ‘should think, to be treated with some “no^ness and gravity, instead of the mockery and ridicule so a”»“on™”^ tolerated from hungry hypocrites who live by w. s though thev seem to be hard run for topics when they are forced' to quiz the very dinner which keeps the alive; like the serpent in the fable, that stung the peasa for warming it in his bosom. This shameful practice ough I think, in this enlightened age, to be put down as so richly deserves, by cool contempt or neglect—the mos powerful of all means for silencing a witless jester, who ha nothing to boast of but effrontery and impudence During a long life, I have, for my own part, uniformly looked upon the enjoyments of the table as the most innocent and natural, and as the most worthy of being examined by philo- sophic experiment. Few philosophers, indeed, have atten<-led sufficiently to the subject, though it must be obvious to all, tha many of them would have been more usefully employed in examining the qualities of turtle, or tlm process of pickling, than in pursuing idle etourdenes, and spinning fantastic theones. Fameless as I am in the Republic of Science, I have come to the resolution of supplying—as far as my observation and my reading enable me—this Iviatus valde dejiendus, in sophy of the Table, and of sketching from my private Manual