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... The British Essayists: The Spectator - Էջ 30Alexander Chalmers - 1802Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| John Kitto - 1848 - 432 էջ
...the gold and the harvests of every land ; our tables stored with spiees, oil, and wine ; our rooms filled with pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning's draught is brought to us from the remotest corners of the earth ; we repair our bodies with the drugs of America,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 556 էջ
...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...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 - 1851 - 882 էջ
...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...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 էջ
...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...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 էջ
...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...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 - 1853 - 676 էջ
...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...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 - 1854 - 400 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 էջ
...Hindustan. 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...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 էջ
...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... | |
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