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"Ha! ha!" laughed the gourmand; "some tempting viand post prandia Callirhoe." "My good lord," said I, not heeding his insinuation "I leave you with the greatest regret." "And I part from you with the same; it is a real pleasure to see such a person at dinner." "Adieu! my host 'Je vais vivre et manger en sage."
Hebraist's letter, that it is only on business of the utmost importance that I have presumed to break in upon the learned leisure of Mr. Jonas Elmore." "Business!" replied Mr. Elmore, producing his spectacles, and deliberately placing them athwart his nose, "'His mane edictum, post prandia Callirhoen, etc. "Business in the morning, and the ladies after dinner.
Hebraist's letter, that it is only on business of the utmost importance that I have presumed to break in upon the learned leisure of Mr. Jonas Elmore." "Business!" replied Mr. Elmore, producing his spectacles, and deliberately placing them athwart his nose, "'His mane edictum, post prandia Callirhoen, etc. "Business in the morning, and the ladies after dinner.
"Ha! ha!" laughed the gourmand; "some tempting viand post prandia Callirhoe." "My good lord," said I, not heeding his insinuation "I leave you with the greatest regret." "And I part from you with the same; it is a real pleasure to see such a person at dinner." "Adieu! my host 'Je vais vivre et manger en sage."
At Tuillemont, an English gentleman once told me he had the misfortune to sleep one night where all the people's heads were full of the Emperor, who had dined there the day before; and some wise fellow of the place wrote these lines under his picture: Ingreditur magnus magno de Cæsare Cæsar, Thenas, sub signo Cervi, sua prandia sumit.
Sir, I will heartily excuse your absence. Stercus et urina medici sunt prandia prima. Ex aliis paleas, ex istis collige grana. You are mistaken, quoth Rondibilis, in the second verse of our distich, for it ought to run thus Nobis sunt signa, vobis sunt prandia digna.
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