Excerpt: ...who was uncivil, impudent, or provoking. If I supposed it possible that my voice should ever reach our late critic, whose good sense and good spirit Americans appreciate, and whose name they would be glad to honor if everything English had not become suspicious to us, the possible synonyme of Pharisaism or stupidity, I should recommend to him Lord Chesterfield's assertion, that a man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's bad manners. For the greasy meats, let him forego meats altogether ...
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Excerpt: ...who was uncivil, impudent, or provoking. If I supposed it possible that my voice should ever reach our late critic, whose good sense and good spirit Americans appreciate, and whose name they would be glad to honor if everything English had not become suspicious to us, the possible synonyme of Pharisaism or stupidity, I should recommend to him Lord Chesterfield's assertion, that a man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's bad manners. For the greasy meats, let him forego meats altogether and take chickens, and he will not find grease enough to soil his best coat, if he should carry the chick away in his pocket. We always found a sufficient variety to enable us to choose a wholesome and a toothsome dinner, with many tempting dainties, and scores of dishes that I never heard of before, and ordered dubiously by way of experiment, and tasted timorously in pursuit of knowledge. As for the corn-cake of the White Hills, if I live a thousand years, I never expect anything in the line of biscuit, loaf, or cakes more utterly satisfactory. It is the very ultimate crystallization of cereals, the poetry and rhythm of bread, brown and golden to the eye, like the lush loveliness of October, crumbling to the touch, un-utterable to the taste. It has all the ethereal, evanishing fascination of a spirit. Eve might have set it before Raphael. You scarcely dare touch it lest it disappear and leave you disappointed and desolate. It is melting, insinuating,
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Fair. Fair hardcover. No DJ. ORIGINAL 1863 EDITION. Ex-Library with usual markings. Text is unmarked. Slightly tanned. Covers show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing. Slightly bumped corners. Back strip edge fraying. Hinge cracked but binding loosening slightly.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
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Good with no dust jacket. Small tears to edges and corners, corners lightly bumped, some soiling and foxing, small owner's inscription in pencil on FFEP, interior hinges just starting to crack, RFEP torn out; green cloth covers.
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8vo, pp. 436, plus 21 of booklist. Brown cloth, faded on spine and slightly worn at ends and corners, o/w VG tight copy. (BAL 4705). Includes A call to my countrywomen, and other essays. The author's second book. She was an advocate of liberal causes, but believed women should wield indirect influence in politics and was opposed to women's suffrage.
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