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Before I proceed to the recipes, I'm looking for some feedback on a recipe idea I was passing around with @ceto on Twitter after they posed a "favourite ice cream flavour" question: a Chocolate Stout Cake (a la this recipe) ice cream with a cream cheese ribbon.
A Slow Day Sarah 2009
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Before I proceed to the recipes, I'm looking for some feedback on a recipe idea I was passing around with @ceto on Twitter after they posed a "favourite ice cream flavour" question: a Chocolate Stout Cake (a la this recipe) ice cream with a cream cheese ribbon.
Archive 2009-05-01 Sarah 2009
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One of the chief ways in which he had gained ceto-vimutti, the release of enlightenment, had been through the cultivation of loving-kindness and selfless empathy.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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If cultivated assiduously, it could evoke the ceto-vimutti of Nibbana, another eminently natural psychological state.
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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Instead of making yoga an assault upon humanity, perhaps it could be used to cultivate innate tendencies that led to ceto-vimutti, the “release of the mind” that was a synonym for the supreme enlightenment?
Buddha Armstrong, Karen, 1944- 2001
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Mezzo-ceto classes is conducted rather differently.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827 Various
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Nothing can equal the disdain with which the prelates the princes, the foreigners of condition, and even the footmen at Rome, judge the middle class, of _mezzo ceto_.
The Roman Question Edmond About 1856
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He learns that a man of the _mezzo ceto_, a man who passes his life on horseback, has harvested on his land so many sacks of corn, which have produced him so much money.
The Roman Question Edmond About 1856
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I learnt, some time afterwards, that my delightful travelling companion was a man of the _mezzo ceto_, and that there are many more such as he in Bologna.
The Roman Question Edmond About 1856
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As a rule the highest classes mix well with strangers; not so the _medio ceto_ who, under
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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