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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... "
The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson - Page 39
by British essayists - 1819
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...petticoat rises out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...to our share! Natural Historians tell us, that no fruitgrowsoriginallyamongus, besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of the...
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The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle ..., Volume 1

Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...natural prospect, without any of the henefits and advantages of commerce, what a harren uncomfortahle spot of earth falls to our share! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among as, hesides hips and haws, acorns and pig.unts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, * To have taken care to disseminate'] It is a little fault, in exact writing, to bring two infinitive...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. 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 tails to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Jnclostan. 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 the earth faljs to our share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us,...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the 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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to «ur share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acrons and pignuts, with other delicacies of the like nature ; that our climate, of itself, and without...
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The Kaleidoscope: or, Literary and scientific mirror, Volume 5

1825 - 458 pages
...out of the bowels of I . ii" • r it t . "If we consider our own country In its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no further ad. vances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater a perfection than...
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The Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian,

G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Imlostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable spot ofearth falls to our share! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...benefits and advantages of commerce, \vhatabarren uncomfortable spot of the earth falls to our shave ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plumb, than a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a...
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