Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest... A School History of England - Page 280by Harmon Bay Niver - 1904 - 406 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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
...with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...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... | |
| Joseph Addison - English essays - 1882 - 428 pages
...with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| David Morris (B.A.) - 1883 - 330 pages
...with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...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
...with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...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
...with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk -weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1892 - 358 pages
...with the harvest of every climate : our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens : the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk- weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines : our rooms are filled with pyramids of china, and adorned with...Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens : the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
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