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Excerpt from The Art of Cookery, in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry: With Some Letters to Dr. Lister, and Others; Occasion'd Principally by the Title of a Book Publish'd by the Doctor, Being the Works of Apicius Coelius, Concerning the Soups and Sauces of the Antients
Pericles, when it ?ourifh'd 11103 in fump'tuous Buildings, and Rome in its Height of Em. Pire from Angufin/s down to Adrian, had no thing that equall'd the Royal or New Exchange, or Pope's'head Alley 'for Curiofities and Toy jhops, neither-had their Senate any thing to alleviate their Debates concerning the Affairs of the Univerfe like Rafiling fometimes at Gollonel Parfons's. Although the Egyptians often extended their Conquefis into Africa and Ethiopia, and tho' the Cafre Blacks have very fine Teeth, yet I cannot find that they make ufe of any fuch Infirument nor does Lndolfn/s, tho' very exati as to the Ahy?ine Empire, give any account of a matter fo im portant for which he is, to blame, as Ifhall {hew in my Treatife of For/
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