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Excerpt from Salad for the Solitary and the Social The author of Gentle Life - a good English authority thus portrays John Bull's penchant for the good things of the table Business may trouble us, politics worry us, and money matters drive us mad but we all eat, and eat heartily. If we meet to hear music at the Crystal Palace, it ends in a feast. If we run out of town, we must finish by eating. DO we wel come a hero? We give him a dinner! DO we commence a charity? A feast inaugurates it; and the golden crumbs that drop, in the shape of subscription guineas, from the table of Dives, feed Lazarus and his family for many a long day. And, to adopt the remark of a worthy legal and literary author ity, * whose undoubted Attic, as well as gustatory taste, seem to add emphasis to his words - we might say: To be of good cheer, partake Of good cheer. A great destiny demands a generous diet. The English are the greatest people upon earth - because they are the greatest beef-eaters! The lazza roni of Naples are the most degraded of men, because their food is the poorest. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni? So much for John Bull; if Brother Jonathan is not his equal in culinary skill, or in epicurean taste, he is by no means insensible to the fascinations of the well spread table; if he has any fault, it is that of not making the most of his Opportunity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from Salad for the Social: By the Author of "Salad for the Solitary;" Southey remarks, that there are some persons who are willing to be pleased, and thankful for being pleased, without thinking it necessary that they should be able to parse their pleasure, like a lesson, or give a rule or reason why they are pleased. It is the aim and design of the following pages to put the reader in this precise condition; believing, with Sydney Smith, "that all mankind are happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it." Old books by great authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get more. When in any fragrant, scarce old tome the bookworm discovers a sentence or an illustration that does his own heart good, he should hasten to give it currency. Most readers, readers con amore, have some snug little corner in the storehouse of memory, in which they treasure up choice passages of their favourite authors. It requires more than a mental process to reduce such a heterogeneous collection to something like order. The present Volume, with its antecedent, originated in some such an attempt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.