 | 1906 - 578 sidor
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no 'farther advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 sidor
...petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels 20 of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians 25 tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 414 sidor
...advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians 25 tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,...other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate 1 of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plumb 30 than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 sidor
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1917 - 648 sidor
...brocade Petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...besides hips, and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicates of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can... | |
 | Harry Gordon Selfridge - 1918 - 662 sidor
...outstretched arms. Long ago, in 1711, that master of the pen — Addison — wrote of England's Commerce : * " If ^we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...any of the benefits and advantages of Commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to bur share ! Natural historians tell us that no fruit grows... | |
 | 1924 - 104 sidor
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...like nature ; that our climate of itself and without assistances of art, can make no farther advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple... | |
 | Gerald Edwin Se Boyar - 1925 - 456 sidor
...Brocade Petticoat rises out of the Mines of Peru, and the Diamond Necklace out of the Bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own Country in its natural Prospect,...grows originally among us, besides Hips and Haws, 2 Acorns and Pig-Nutts, with other Delicacies of the like Nature; That our Climate of it self, and... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1925 - 518 sidor
...petticoats rise out > of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomf6rtable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally... | |
 | Walter James Graham - 1928 - 440 sidor
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...delicacies of the like nature; that our climate of it self, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than to a... | |
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If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us besides... 
