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" 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 - Page 115
by Joseph Addison - 1837
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 366 pages
...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...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...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...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

English literature - 1803 - 434 pages
...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...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 346 pages
...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...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...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...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - English literature - 1811 - 508 pages
...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...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...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...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - Elocution - 1817 - 416 pages
...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...
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The Beauties of the Spectator, Tatler, and Guardian,

G. Hamonière - 1819 - 388 pages
...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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The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volume 36

British essayists - 1819 - 340 pages
...of weather which give them birth ; that our eyes are refreshed with the green fields of Britain, and at the same time that our palates are feasted with...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...
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