 | William Scott - 1825 - 382 pages
...the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its«hatural 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 us, that no fruit grows originally among us,... | |
 | 1828 - 394 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... | |
 | 1832 - 282 pages
...Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country raits natural prospect, without any of the benefits and...uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural histotians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pignuts,... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...to derive from an excursion on, or along the banks of the Rhine." 237—2 THE RESULTS OF COMMERCE. 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 ;... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. urally retrench the little superfluities of garniture...blossoms will fall of themselves when the root that ns, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acoms and pig-nuts, with other... | |
 | 1836 - 1118 pages
...petticoat rises out of the miues of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indoetan. U ire consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantage» of commerce, what a barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 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,...to our share! Natural historians tell us, that no Л fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies... | |
 | Alexander Knox - 1837 - 624 pages
...be united together by their common interest. Almost every degree produces something peculiar to it. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Nor has traffic more enriched our vegetable world, than it has improved the whole face of nature... | |
 | 1839 - 428 pages
...each joy that gilds the past, And heaven our mutual home at last.—Noel. THE RESULTS OP 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... | |
 | 1841 - 598 pages
...necessity of a moment ! " If we consider our own country in its natural prospect," says Addison, " without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no farther advances toward a plumb than a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab.... | |
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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... 
