| David Hume - 1848 - 588 pagina’s
...of these vegetables that was used was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders". Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. The use of hops, and the planting of them, was introduced from Flanders about the beginning of this... | |
| Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pagina’s
...little of these vegetables that were used were imported from Holland and Flanders. Queen Katherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.*' Hume, however, is, in some degree, incorrect in this. Our ancestors, long before Henry the Eighth's... | |
| David Hume - 1849 - 496 pagina’s
...these vegetables that was used, was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders.t Queen Catharine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. The use of hops, and the planting of them, was introduced from Flanders about the beginning of this... | |
| Joseph Haydn - 1851 - 700 pagina’s
...salads, carrots, cabbage, or other edible root«, were produced in England. — Butbr. Queen Catherine (Henry's first consort), when she wanted a salad,...obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. — Hume. SALAMANCA, BATTLE OF. Between the British and allies commanded by lord Wellington, and the... | |
| Albert James Bernays - 1852 - 212 pagina’s
...little of these vegetables that was used was imported from Holland and Flanders, and Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. The fruits used by our ancestors were neither numerous nor good. Gooseberries, strawberries, and currants,... | |
| Mansfield Parkyns - 1853 - 482 pagina’s
...little of these vegetables that was used was imported from Holland and Flanders — Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose." lentils, cooked in their horrible oil, which from its drying properties is more like varnish, and which... | |
| David Hume - 1854 - 602 pagina’s
...of these vegetables that was used was formerly imported from Holland and Flanders0. Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. The use of hops, and the planting of them, was introduced from Flanders about the beginning of this... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 604 pagina’s
...the little of these vegetables that was used was imported from Holland and Flanders. Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose.' This, though somewhat exaggerated, will serve to indicate the kind of progress made in husbandry by... | |
| Albert James Bernays - 1866 - 428 pagina’s
...little of these vegetables that was used was imported from Holland and Flanders, and Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on purpose. The most important vegetable of the present day, the Potato, was brought to England in 1586, by Sir... | |
| Mansfield Parkyns - 1868 - 494 pagina’s
...little of these vegetables that was used was imported from Holland and Flanders — Queen Catherine, when she wanted a salad, was obliged to despatch a messenger thither on onrpose." Butter is sold either fresh, to be used as pomatum for the hair, or prepared for keeping... | |
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