 The single dress of a woman of quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid zone, and the tippet from beneath the pole. The brocade petticoat...  The Spectator - Page 1121853 - 742 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...quality is often the product of a hundred elimates. The muff and the fan come together from the opposite ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid...the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan." But I must not dwell longer on the fascinating pages of Addison. Allow me only, before I elose them,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...quality is often the product of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the opposite ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from the torrid...the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Indostan." But I must not dwell longer on the fascinating pages of Addison. Allow me only, before I close them,... | |
 | 1832 - 282 pages
...of quality is often the product of an hundred climates.. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...bowels of Indostan. If we consider our own country raits natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what a barren uncomfortable... | |
 | 1836 - 932 pages
...of quality is often theproducts of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the r than the men. * Natural historians tell ns, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acoms and... | |
 | 1836 - 282 pages
...of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. There are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...of quality is often the products of a hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...barren uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share! Natural historians tell us, that no Л fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns... | |
 | 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
...of quality is often the product of an hundred climates. The muff and the fan come together from the different ends of the earth. The scarf is sent from...Peru, and the diamond necklace out of the bowels of Hindostan. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges its wood... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,...barren, uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural historians tell us that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws, acorns... | |
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