"gulosity" rather than superstition; moreover, these barbarians had certain abominable practices, supposed to be known only to the most advanced races. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Stade: old travellers attribute the cannibalism of the Brazilian races to “gulosity” rather than superstition; moreover, these barbarians had certain abominable practices, supposed to be known only to the most advanced races. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It is then that their true nature is exposed, mired in gulosity and superciliousness as they become. ❋ Samuel Vaknin (N/A)
Immanuel Kant was almost the only profound speculative thinker who was decidedly convivial, and given to gulosity, at least at his dinner. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his Rambler is a masterly essay against gulosity [2]. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
The iron may be a Scottish squirelet, full of gulosity and "gigmanity"; the magnet an English plebeian, and moving rag-and-dust mountain, coarse, proud, irascible, imperious; nevertheless, behold how they embrace, and inseparably cleave to one another! ❋ Various (1885)
Astonished Europe rings with the mystery for ten months; sees only lie unfold itself from lie; corruption among the lofty and the low, gulosity, credulity, imbecility, strength nowhere but in the hunger. ❋ Thomas Carlyle (1838)
Then a woman called Jenny McPherson, who had in early life, like "a good Scotch louse," who "aye travels south," found her way from Lochaber to London, where she had got into George's kitchen, and learned something better than to make sour kraut, was the individual who administered to her master's epicureanism, if not gulosity. ❋ Alexander Leighton (1837)
Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy? ❋ Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1829)
Yet I have heard him, upon other occasions, talk with great contempt of people who were anxious to gratify their palates; and the 206th number of his _Rambler_ is a masterly essay against gulosity [1373]. ❋ James Boswell (1767)
[Footnote 2: This essay is more against the practices of the parasite than gulosity. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
Golias, who in our time obtained wide notoriety for his gluttony and lechery, and by addiction to gulosity and debauchery deserved his surname, being of excellent culture but of bad manners, and of no moral discipline, uttered oftentimes and in many forms, both of rhythm and metre, infamous libels against the Pope and Curia of Rome, with no less impudence than imprudence. " ❋ Various (1866)
