 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1146 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's-Draught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs... | |
 | Shawn L. Maurer - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 330 pages
...nature of England's own benevolence soon emerges quite nakedly from Mr. Spectator's assertion that his "Friend Sir ANDREW calls the Vineyards of France our...Gardens; the Spice-Islands our Hot-Beds; the Persians our Silk- Weavers, and the Chinese our Potters." Mr. Spectator represents all nations as "naturally" profiting... | |
 | Beth Fowkes Tobin - Art - 1999 - 324 pages
...Emporium for the whole Earth": 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 'sDraught comes to us from the remotest Corners of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs... | |
 | Lawrence James - History - 2000 - 768 pages
...'Our ships are laden with the Harvest of every Climate,' wrote Joseph Addison in 1711. 'Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and wines: Our Rooms...Pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship ofjapan: Our morning's Draught comes to us from the remotest Corner of the Earth: We repair our Bodies... | |
 | Lawrence James - History - 2000 - 768 pages
...Joseph Addison in 1711. 'Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and wines: Our Rooms are rilled with Pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship...Our morning's Draught comes to us from the remotest Corner of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian... | |
 | Chris Andrews - Great Britain - 2002 - 124 pages
...Empires in America (1741), by John Oldmixon: he is writing about the Hudson's Bay Company Our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines. Our rooms are filled with [goods] from China and decorated with objects from Japan. Our morning drink comes from the remotest... | |
 | Tita Chico - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 316 pages
...England. Mr. Spectator reflects, when celebrating the internationalization of the Royal Exchange, that "Our Rooms are filled with Pyramids of China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan."7'2 The female body and the room that made up that female body were regularly imagined as being... | |
 | 1890 - 340 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...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... | |
 | E. Derry Evans - Abstracting - 1930 - 124 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... | |
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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 corners... 
