On Food: Being Lectures Delivered at the South Kensington Museum

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R. Hardwicke, 1873 - 385 páginas

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Página 327 - ... a hardened and shameless Tea-drinker, who has for twenty years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant, whose kettle has scarcely time to cool, who with Tea amuses the evening, with Tea solaces the midnight, and with Tea welcomes the morning.
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