The art of dining and the art of attaining high health : with a few hints on suppers / by Thomas Walker.

  • Walker, Thomas, 1784-1836.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The art of dining and the art of attaining high health : with a few hints on suppers / by Thomas Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    follow the same policy, they never really taste the sweets of peace ; they are in a constant state of invasion by their own troops. It is a rule at dinners not to allow you to do any thing for yourself, and I have never been able to understand how even salt, except it be from some supersti- tion, has so long maintained its place on table. I am always in dread, that, like the rest of its fellows, it will be banished to the sideboard, to be had only on special application. I am rather a bold man at table, and set form very much at defiance, so that if a salad happens to be within my reach, I make no scruple to take it to me; but the moment I am espied, it is nipped up from the most convenient into the most inconvenient position. That such absurd- ity should exist among rational beings, and