Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon].

  • John Timbs
Date:
1838
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Credit: Hints for the table: or, the economy of good living / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cable Snrfbotc. An amiable enthusiast, a worshipper of nature after the manner of Rousseau, being melted into feelings of universal philanthropy by the softness and serenity of a spring morn- ing, resolved, that for that day, at least, no injured animal should pollute his board; and, having recorded his vow, be walked six miles to a hamlet famous for fish dinners, where, without an idea of breaking his sentimental engage- ment, he regaled himself on a small matter of crimped cod and oyster-sauce. This reminds one of a harmless piece of quizzing in a critic, stating, that although the Pythagorean Sir Richard Phillips will not eat animal food, he is addicted to gravy over his potatoes. The following anecdote shows how far restraint in high society operates to the exclusion of comfort. It was said by a man of high rank, large fortune, and extraordinary accomplishments, (supposed to be the late Earl of Dudley,) that he did not know a single house in London where he could venture to ask for a cup of tea: although this might not be literally true, it argues a lamentable degree of re- straint.—Quarterly Revietv. The late Lord Grenville once remarked, that he was always glad to meet a lawyer at a dinner party, because he then felt sure that some good topic or other would be ration- ally discussed. The new world is not behind-liand with the old in enthu- siasm for the cookery of France; Bolivar having commis- sioned an agent to bring over the best French cook he could entice. Some one remarked of a fire in the room, that it has one eminent advantage ; it gives you a motive tor selecting and remaining in one part of it. It is the same with a dinner, —it takes you into society, and keeps you there. Rousseau, who felt the irksomeness of meeting for conversation in society without an object, where this resource was wanting, was used to take a knitting-needle and a ball of cotton, to occupy and amuse himself with. The dinner-table does
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