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Excerpt from Gastronomy as a Fine Art; Or the Science of Good Living: A Translation of the "Physiologie Du Gout" Of Brillat-Savarin
That charming student of humanity, Montaigne, who was the favourite author of Shakespeare, and who more than any other Frenchman has coloured the universal thought of the world, ' might well at first sight appear as the strongest possible contrast to our modern Savarin. The one retiring to his quaint old Gascon castle, in a wild country, still remote from towns and highways, to Shut himself up for the latter half of his life with his books, and ponder on his great theme, Humani m'hz'l a me alien/um puto the other, always a man of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
