 | 1864 - 422 pages
...at last. — Noel. THE RESULTS OF COMMERCE. IF we consider our own country in its natural prospect, without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce,...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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 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 falls to cur share ! Natural historians tell us, that no fruit grows originally among us, besides hips and haws,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1866 - 464 pages
...natural prospect," he wrote in 1711, " without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share! Natural...nature ; that our climate -of itself, and without the assistances of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than a sloe, and carries an apple to... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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,...assistance of art, can make no farther advances towards a plum than to a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab : that our melons, our... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1867 - 106 pages
...unless the observer were opposite the aperture. 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... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 86 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 308 pages
...its natural prospect," he wrote, " without any of the benefits and advantages of commerce, what an uncomfortable spot of earth falls to our share ! Natural...the assistance of art, can make no farther advances toward a plum than a sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab ; that our melons,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1869 - 336 pages
...in its natural prospect," he wrote, "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 sloe, and carries an apple to no greater perfection than a crab... | |
 | 1870 - 1014 pages
...of Ormiston and some other estates are." The efforts of the improvers were based on the hypothesis, that " no fruit grows originally among us besides hips and haws, acorns and pignuts, with others of the like nature ; that our climate of itself, and without the assistance of art, can make... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 232 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,...pignuts, with other delicacies of the like nature. Our climate of itself, without the assistance of art, can make no further advances towards a plum than... | |
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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... 
