Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / written by Ignotus and revised by A. Hunter.

Alexander Hunter

Date:: 1807

Credit: Culina famulatrix medicinae, or, Receipts in modern cookery; with a medical commentary / written by Ignotus and revised by A. Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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$179. An ignorant boaster attempts to bully you into the belief that he is a sensible man. 1 SO. It is ruinous for a shop-keeper to suspect a thief, without proving it. 181. It is much better to have a bad man for your enemy, than for your friend. 182. Ostentation is often the handmaid of charity. 183. To correct a child who has a capacity and will not exert it, may be a justifiable measure; but to bestow the same correction upon a child of slow parts, is barbarous brutality. A schoolmaster who does not make this distinction, should be sent to drive a waggon. 184-. Our wishes make every thing probable that we wish for. 185. Modesty in a young man, with a becoming as- surance, is the ground work of an accom- plished gentleman. 186. Do not ridicule personal deformities. 187. Good breeding v\ ill make you civil to a stranger, but it will not allow you to be familiar. 188. Let your voice in conversation be neither too high nor too low. The first is insolent and over- bearing, and the other gives the company pain to attend to you. ] 89. In a numerous company avoid a long argument. 190. Do not blame a man for hard drinking, if he be- longs to a thirsty family. 191. A Roman emperor did not enjoy the luxuries of an English washer-woman. She breakfasts 3$