 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 Seiten
...men thriving in their own private fortunes, and at the same time promoting the public stock. . . . " 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 Seiten
...brocade petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. celebrated liook, jfrtto Oymnastiui apud j**l»f mw,...Liliri so. Vtuct, 1569 quarto. min in one year, than farther advances towards a plum, than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than... | |
 | 1843 - 234 Seiten
...every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that If we consider our own country in its natural prospect,...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... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow - 1847 - 640 Seiten
...petticoat rises out of the mines of Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the like nature,...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.... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 Seiten
...asked what countryman he was, replied that he was a citizen of the world." " If," continues Addison, " 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 902 Seiten
...body of men thriving in their own private fortunes, and at the same time promoting the public stock " 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 Seiten
...body of men thriving in their own private fortunes, and at the same time promoting the public stock " 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... | |
 | 1853 - 524 Seiten
...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,...of itself, and without the assistance of art, can * See No. 1. make no farther advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - 1853 - 676 Seiten
...own country in its natural prospects, 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 to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater a perfection than a crab... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 596 Seiten
...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,...uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural histoiians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns and pignuts,... | |
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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... 
