Memoirs of a Stomach (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Sydney Whiting

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9780266211556: Memoirs of a Stomach (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0266211550 ISBN 13: 9780266211556

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Memoirs of a Stomach

The depreciation of another's powers of mind, is the usual and proper beginning to books in general; and though I'am accustomed to introductions of all kinds, I Will here content myself with this one.

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""The stomach...is a very hospitable gentleman, who is unfashionable enough to live in a sunk storey, as his ancestors have always done before him since the memory of man. The palate is the footman, whose duty it is to receive all strangers at the top of the stairs, and to announce their rank and quality before they are suffered to descend to the apartments of his master. The latter is occasionally rather irritable and choleric, and, in such humours, scruples not to kick out his guests, when their company is disagreeable, who rush past the astonished footman a the landing-place and make their exit with far less ceremony than precipitation.""

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