| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pages
...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. plumb than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than... | |
| Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...hrocade petticout rises out of the mines of Pern, and the diamond necklace out of the howels of Indoetan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the henefits and advantages of commerce, what a harren uncomfortahle spot of earth falls to our share!... | |
| Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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, * To have taken care to disseminate'] It is a little fault, in exact writing, to bring two infinitive... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...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,...commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth tails to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips... | |
| William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Jnclostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect)...advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth faljs to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,... | |
| Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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,...benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren and uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows... | |
| William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to «ur share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acrons and pignuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate, of itself, and without... | |
| British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural pror spect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no farther advances towards a plumb than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than... | |
| G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Imlostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot ofearth falls to our share! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides... | |
| William Scott - 1819 - 366 pages
...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,...advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to pur share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,... | |
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