The school for good living; or, a literary and historical essay on the European kitchen: beginning with Cadmus the cook and king, and concluding with the union of cookery and chymistry.

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1814
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    223 tally ignorant of the Doctor Tryphe- rus,* the rise of vapours, the force of steam, and the due employment of them in the culinary laboratory. Besides, learned Sirs, the science is one which may be of infinite import- ance in al! the objects of life. Your members, for instance, may ere long go forth as missionaries to the east, to- rescue the Hindoos from the horrid obscenities of the J'hallic worship, and save their infatuated widows, not only from, fire in this world, but, as fervent member of the house of cummons'l’ feelingly exclaimed, from hell fire in the next. Now, what arguinents can they use, what means of conversion can they more effectually employ, than * Trypherus was the masici wtio laugnt iheart of carving in Rome.—Juvenal, sat. 12. v. 137,• t Mr.
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