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By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate princeps obsoniorum.
By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind. Of all the delicacies in the whole mundus edibilis, I will maintain it to be the most delicate princeps obsoniorum.
How he falls into an ecstasy of laudation, spelling the very name with small capitals, as if the lower case were too mean for such a delicacy, and breaking away from the cheap encomiums of the vulgar tongue to hail it in sonorous Latin as princeps obsoniorum! There is some truth in his compliments, no doubt; but they are wasteful, excessive, imprudent.
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