 | Great Britain - 1778 - 378 pages
...our filk-weavers, and the Chinefe our potters. Nature indeed furnifhes us with the bare neceflaries of life ; but traffic gives us a great variety of what is ufeful, and at the lame time uipplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...filk-weavers; and the Chinefe, our potters. Nature, indeed, furnifhes us with th& bare neceflaries of life ; but traffic gives us a great variety of what is ufefnl, and, at the fame time, fupp'.ies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor... | |
 | 1789 - 508 pages
...our filk-weavers, and the Chinefe our potters. Nature indeed furnimes us with the bare neceffaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is ufeful, and at the fame time fupplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, hut traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...our silk-weavers, and the Chinese, our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life; but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that... | |
 | Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...tiaflk gives us a great variety of what it; useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least...happiness, that whilst we enjoy the remotest products cf the north and south, we are free irom thuse extremities of weather which give them hirth; thai our... | |
 | Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that... | |
 | Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...our silk-weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of life, but traffic gives us a great variety of what is useful, and at the same time supplies us with every thing that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1814 - 424 pages
...is useful, and, at the same time, supplies us v ith every tiling that is convenient and ornanientul Nor is it the least part of this our happiness* that. whilst we enjoy the remotest products of the north and south, we are free froai those extremities of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes... | |
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... that is convenient and ornamental. Nor is it the least part of this our happiness, that whilst we enjoy the remotest products of the north and south, we are free from those extremities of weather which... 
