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It is of a dark brown cinnamon colour, an aro* matic fmell if rubbed, and of a pungent, hot, fpicy tafte, which is lafting on the pa - late, though imparted flowly.
A Complete Collection of the Medical and Philosophical Works of John Fothergill 1781
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In fome ftudies, too, that relate to tafte and fine writing, which is our ob - je£l, the progrefs of Society mufl:, in equity, be admitted to have given us fome advantages.
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The flefli of this bird is difagreeable to the tafte: the fat is fo oily as to melt with the leaft warmth, and bdng mixed with the whole fubftance of the animal, gives it an ologinous and naufeous fmell.
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Sometimes they get as many fifh as makes them a plenti* ful iMUiquety and at other times they fcarce get every one a tafte; but be it little or much that they get every one has his part, as well the young and tender, the old and feeble, who are not able tp go abroad, as the ftrong and lufty.
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But as well might it be a matter of charge againfl the merchants of England, that their exports to the great continent of Africa, which contains fo many millions of inhabitants, lefs influenced by religious prejudices, and more inclined by tafte and manners than the people of the Eafl to ufe our productions, do not equal their exports to our remaining American colonies.
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Tiu lofes S62 ACCOUNT OF CBLBBB8, AMBOTKA, & C. lofes its pleaTant tafte, and turns thickeft, looking like orgeade, or almond-milk, it is efteemed more wholefome, and has an inebriating quality $ it is afterwards kept in bottles well corked.
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X Our author calls it matia: it is the fecond rind of the nutmeg* which haft four r it is much in requeA: for its aiomatic tafte - Macis officina.
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There are many other articles of lefs note, that employ the fpare time of their females; as combs, of which they make vaft numbers; and little bafkets with fmall beads; but all finifhed with fuch neatnefs and tafte in the dif - pofition of the various parts, that a ftranger cannot help admiring their afEduity and dexterity..
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They contained many fa - line. particles; thofe alhes that lay on the ground, eicpofed to the burning fun, had a coat of tlic whiteft powder on their furfacc, which to the tafte was ex -
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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Befides thefe beautiful lines, Mr Lyttelton wrote a monody on the death of his lady, which will be re* rality of Cambray and the fpiritof Fontenellcarehap« niembered while conjugal affection and a tafte for pily united, poetry exifE in this country.
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