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Project Gutenberg's Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets, by John Evelyn This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets Author: John Evelyn Release Date: April 1, 2005 [EBook #15517] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ACETARIA: A DISCOURSE OF SALLETS *** Produced by David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: Joannes Evelyn Arm^r] _ACETARIA_ A DISCOURSE OF SALLETS * * * * * By _JOHN EVELYN, Esq._ Author of the _Kalendarium_ * * * * * _BROOKLYN_, Published by the _Women's Auxiliary_, BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN 1937 _Printed in the United States of America_ _Publisher's Note_ This edition of Acetaria is a faithful reprint of the First Edition of 1699, with the correction of a few obvious typographical errors, and those noted in the Errata of the original edition. Whereas no attempt has been made to reproduce the typography of the original, the spirit has been retained, and the vagaries of spelling and punctuation have been carefully followed; also the old-style S [s] has been retained. Much of the flavour of Acetaria is lost if it is scanned too hurriedly; and one should remember also that Latin and Greek were the gauge of a man of letters, and if the titles and quotations seem a bit ponderous, they are as amusing a conceit as the French and German complacencies of a more recent generation. _Foreword to Acetaria_ John Evelyn, famous for his "Diary," was a friend and contemporary of Samuel Pepys. Both were conscientious public servants who had held minor offices in the government. But, while Pepys' diary is sparkling and redolent of the free manners of the Restoration, Evelyn's is the record of a sober, scholarly man. His mind turned to gardens, to sculpture and architecture, rather than to the gaieties of contemporary social life. Pepys was an urban figure and Evelyn was "county." He represents the combination of public servant and country gentleman which has been the supreme achievement of English culture. Horace Walpole said of him in his C
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