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and this method has a marvellous effect, efpe- 

 cially in an extenfive plan. The dcicriptions 

 and plans that have been lately publifhed of 

 Chinefe gardens, exhibit alib ideas that are new 

 and grand in their kind. 



X. (9.) Who could have imagined that the 



preparation of food for man fliould have pro- 



duced fo complicated an art as is that of cookry ? 



Thanks to the rapacious appetite and refined 



tafle of the ancient and modern Luculli, we 



have the celebrated treatiic of Apicius, de re cu- 



linari, which informs us of the ftate of cookery 



among the Romans , and, for that of the mo- 



derns, we have Le parfait Cuifmier, Le Cuifinier 



1 L: bourgeois-, Le Cuifinier moderne, by 



M. Chapelle, and a great number of fimilar 



works, in almoft all languages. But this art 



and thefe works belong to the univerfal erudi- 



tion of the glutton, the voluptuary, and the pa- 



rafite, who afiert that a cook is a divine mortal ; 



and maintain by arguments plaufible enough, 



though falacious, that this art is more ufeful, and 



requires more wit and fagacity than meta- 



XI. (10.) Let us not here forget to mention 

 Lin art worthy to be honoured by the whole lite- 

 rary world , an art of all others the moil plcafing 

 and moll ulcful : and of which they nuke a very 

 juft eulogy in Germany, by a folemn jubh 

 honour of its invention : in a word, t! 



Printing. 



