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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror - Page 216
1825
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 398 pages
...prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our Share ! Natural historians tell...grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acrons and pignuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our •limate, of itself, and without...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines oi Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Jndostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, \vhatabarren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our shave ! Natural historians tell us, that...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 434 pages
...necklace out of the bowels of Jndostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, withoutany of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

1823 - 414 pages
...by bringing into their country whatever is wanting, and carrying out of it whatever is superfluous. 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 For these reasons there are not more useful members in a commonwealth...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 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 prospe.ct,...us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with F f 2 other delicacies of the like nature; that our climate of itself, and without the assistance of...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, a Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse for the ...

William Scott - 1823 - 396 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 our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 5-6

British essayists - 1823 - 884 pages
...petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantaged of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians...
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The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index ..., Volume 2

1824 - 284 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,...without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab:...
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The Spectator, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1824 - 278 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,...without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab:...
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The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ...

1825 - 424 pages
...petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. "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 grew...
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