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.

Date:
1814
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    position, the rest will be all smooth and easy. Amid the descrepancy of opinions, the instrumentality of gas- trology appears to me the surest and the safest means of conversion.* But above all a thorough knowledge of the alimentary art may be absolutely ne- cessary for those members at home, who after the fatigues of tutorship look forward to rustic indolence, and uxo- rious ease; who contemplate a happy retirement to livings annually aug- mented by the bounty of Parliament, or to the more solid benefices of their College liberally bestowed perhaps upon their curates. The magnitude of the first will not be found to do away the * The author hopes that should Messrs. B. or Dr. C. B. cast their eyes on this page, it may obviate many difficulties.