 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 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,...what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to oumhare ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws,... | |
 | 1864 - 422 pages
...each joy that gilds the past, And heaven our mutual home at last. — Noel. THE RESULTS OF COMMERCE. IF we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, that our climate of itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 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,...what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to cur share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 464 pages
...natural prospect," he wrote in 1711, " without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share! Natural...nature ; that our climate -of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than a sloe, and carries an apple to... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 106 pages
...unless the observer were opposite the aperture. 4. If we consider our own country in its natural aspect without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share. 5. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 86 pages
...you," says he, " that you die with Phocion?" 4. If we consider our own country in its natural aspect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! 5. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 336 pages
...in its natural prospect," he wrote, "without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural...without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab ; that... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 308 pages
...its natural prospect," he wrote, " without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no farther advances toward a plum than a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab... | |
 | 1870 - 1014 pages
...of Ormiston and some other estates are." The efforts of the improvers were based on the hypothesis, that " no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pignuts, with others of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistance of art, can make... | |
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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... 
