| Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 pages
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms...canopies. My friend, Sir Andrew, calls the vineyards of Prance our gardens ; the spice-islands, our hot-beds ; the Persians, our silkweavers, and the Chinese... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with oils, and spices, and wines; our rooms are adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's...America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. 3. The vineyards of France have been called our gardens, the spice-islands our hotbeds, the Persians... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...242 EULOGIUM ON TRADE. oils and wine ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china and coloured with workmanship of Japan ; our morning's draught comes...America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. The vineyards of France are our gardens, the Spice Islands our hotbeds, the Persians are our weavers,... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...whole face of Nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms...workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes Lo us from the remotest corners of the earth; we repair bodies by the drugs of America, and repose... | |
| David Morris (B.A.) - 1883 - 330 pages
...one of the Czar of Muscovy." " Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms...repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend calls the vineyards of France our gardens : the Spice Islands, our hot-beds : the Persians, our silk-weavers... | |
| Paul Goldbach - 1886 - 104 pages
...with the Harvest of eveiy Climate: our Tables are stored with Spices and Oils and Wines: our Kooms are filled with Pyramids of China, and adorned with...America, and repose ourselves under Indian Canopies'. usw Ein Gebiet ist es seit jeher gewesen, auf welchem der Luxus des einzelnen sowohl wie einer ganzen... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1888 - 606 pages
...whole face of nature among us." Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms...corners of the earth ; we repair our bodies by the drugs jf America, and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend Sir Andrew calls the vineyards of... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1892 - 248 pages
...face of nature among 30 us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms...the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk -weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 pages
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms...the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk- weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 pages
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms...the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk- weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of... | |
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