| Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 902 pages
...whole face of Nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms...china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan ; our morning draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth ; we repair our bodies by the drugs... | |
| Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...whole face of Nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms...china, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan ; our morning draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth ; we repair our bodies by the drugs... | |
| 1853 - 524 pages
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms...gardens; the spice-islands our hot-beds; the Persians our silk weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of... | |
| Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms...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... | |
| Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 676 pages
...whole face of nature among us : our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate, our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines ; our rooms...Andrew, calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the Spice Islands our hotrbeds ; the Persians our silk weavers ; and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed... | |
| William Keddie - Literature - 1854 - 400 pages
...are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest...repose ourselves under Indian canopies. My friend I twelve millions of money. The exSir Andrew calls the vineyards of France our gardens ; the spice... | |
| Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...adorne I with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's drau^ut i oraes to us from the remotest comers vinoyarde of France our gardens; the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk-weavers, and... | |
| Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 pages
...of the bowels of Hindustan. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate ; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines; our rooms...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,... | |
| 1864 - 422 pages
...Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with oils, and spices, and wines ; our rooms are filled with pyramids of...America ; and repose ourselves under Indian canopies. The vineyards of France have been culled our gardens, the spice-islands our hot-beds, the Persians... | |
| Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1866 - 464 pages
...whole face of nature among us. 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 workmanship of Japan ; our morning's draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth ; we... | |
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