 For these reasons there are not more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rich, and magnificence...  The Spectator, no. 1-314 - Pagina 115door Joseph Addison - 1837Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 366 pagina’s
...north and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges its wool for rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pagina’s
...north and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges its wool for rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | 1803 - 454 pagina’s
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 | 1803 - 434 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth : that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges his wool for rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 346 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...nature, find work for the poor, add wealth to the rid), and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great. • Improved the whole face of nature among... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...distribute the gifts of nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great. • Improved the whole face of nature among... | |
 | Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges its wool for rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | William Scott - 1817 - 416 pagina’s
...birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the same time that our palaces are feasted with fruits that rise between the tropics....the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English merchant converts the tin of his own country into gold, and exchanges his wool for rubies. The Mahometans... | |
 | G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pagina’s
...and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, at the...the rich, and magnificence to the great. Our English quent ni d'épices, ni d'huiles, ni de -vins. Nos chambres sont garnies de pyramides de porcelaine... | |
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