 | Edward Randolph Emerson - 1908 - 584 pagina’s
...he is in constant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, the more polite he is thought to be. They have indeed a proverb that... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1807 - 706 pagina’s
...grandeur. The greater a man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes into his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, the more polite he is thought to be. They have, indeed, a proverb that says, tiat ' iieggars and thieves only cax small pieces, or without making a noise.1 " Bruce. Lobo... | |
 | 1868 - 576 pagina’s
...the man would seem to be," says Bruce, " the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, the more polite he is thought to be." A loud and hog-like mastication is such an indispensable element of good breeding, that it has passed... | |
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... full that he is in constant danger of being choked. This is a mark of grandeur. The greater the man would seem to be, the larger piece he takes in his mouth ; and the more noise he makes in chewing it, . the more polite he is thought to be. They have,... 
