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It is as white as mSk and as foft as cream, and the taite very deUcious as thofe that are accuftomed to them; but thofe who have not been ufed to eat them will diflike them atfirft, becaufe they fmell liked roafted onions.
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In the reign of the fecond emperor after the Roman con - queft, Petronius Arbiter, a man well known for taite and learning, was governor of Egypt.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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Thofe, and federal other caofes combining together, totally changed the manners of Europe; and inftead of fober frugality, and other domeftic virtues of the women* introduced luxury and diffipation; with a taite for all the tiftfelglait 'of unfubftantial trifles.
The Monthly Review 1780
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He has been reprefented as a prince who had a taite for poetry, who governed his fubjects with uncommon prudence and moderation, and who was enabled by his fagacity and ad - drefs to crufh many confpiracies that had been formed againft him c.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1780
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J I ihall be happy if I find, & om the reception this trifle meets with, I am not fingular in my opinion, or vain in flattering myfelf the world will not, at leaft, condemn the taite of its moft obedient, humble fervanty The Editor*
Letters from Henrietta to Morvina. Interspersed with Anecdotes, Historical and Amusing, of the ... 1777
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Mcdlt. The fiuits and water are in themfelves excellent; but there is a vvav to make them Hill more grateful to our taite.
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This laft cxpreffion has made a fentiment occur to me, that there is a certain refined taite, (parfons may call it grace, if they will) which, unlefs bora with a man, the belt difpofed ChriftiaQ will be f HENRY and FRANCES.
A series of genuine letters between Henry and Frances [by R. and E. Griffith]. 1767
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