 | Osborne William Tancock - 1872 - 364 pages
...God for aid. PLUMPTRE, (Edipus the King. 106. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...besides hips and haws, acorns and pignuts, with other delicates of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pages
...for you says he that you die with Phocion. 4. If we consider our own country in its natural aspect without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share. 5. These unhappy people were proposing schemes for persuading monarchs to choose favourites upon the... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 584 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,...nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no farther advances towards a plumb than to a 10 sloe, and carries an... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 576 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,...nature; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no farther advances towards a plumb than to a is sloe, and carries an... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 pages
...diamond necklace out of the mines of Hindostan. If we consider our own country in its natural aspect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...our share! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grew originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of a like... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1875 - 566 pages
...and advantages of commerce, vvhat ' uncomfortable spot of eartri falls to our share ; ; torianstell us, that no fruit grows originally among- us, besides...haws, acorns and pig-nuts, with other delicacies of th like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no farther... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1879 - 250 pages
...diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomJbrtable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us that no fruit grows originally... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. e. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...nature; that our climate of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 pages
...natural prospect," writes Addison, "without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural...itself, and without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than a star, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...Brougham (ms-ises). THE EESULTS OF COMMEECE. i. If we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...historians 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... | |
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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... 
