Excerpt from Breakfast, Dinner, and Tea: Viewed Classically, Poetically, and PracticallyDr. Johnson says of Mrs. Carter that she could both translate Epictetus, and make a pudding, and write a Greek poem as well as embroider a handkerchief. In our own day', there may be found many an active, orderly housekeeper, who is also an intelligent, well-informed, even accomplished woman. For the entertainment of this class of persons, the present work ...
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