| 1853 - 748 sivua
...force of his original. Take, for instance, the following sentences, which admit of fair comparison : " We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the...silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted ; the treasures of those mines are ours which we have never digged... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 sivua
...use them. For, why are we surrounded with the sea ? Surely that our wants at home might be supplied by our navigation into other countries, the least...silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted ; the treasures of those mines are ours in which we have never digg'd... | |
| 1875 - 260 sivua
...he answered, "Surely, that our wants at home might be supplied by navigation into .other countries. By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun that bringe them forth; we shine in silks that our hands have never wrought; we drink of vineyards... | |
| Ernest Ingersoll - 1893 - 314 sivua
...justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.— Micak vi, 8. Above the figure of Commerce, We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth.— Anonymous. Above the figure of History, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event,... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1897 - 604 sivua
...Above the gigantic female figure representing commerce are placed the words, from some unknown author, "We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth." In these words, what have we? A touch of humanity. A confession of human brotherhood. A recognition... | |
| Charles Bingham Reynolds - 1897 - 56 sivua
...humbly with thy God?— Micah vi: 8. Commerce (by Flanagan), holding miniature locomotive and ship: We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth. — Considerations on East India Trade. History (by French), with a book and a reflecting mirror: One... | |
| 1900 - 226 sivua
...jnstly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.— Micah vi: 8. Above the figure of Commerce, We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth. --Anonymoas. Above the figure of Histvry, One God, one law, one element, AuU one far-off divine event,... | |
| 1902 - 36 sivua
...thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thv God? MICAH. vi., 8. Commerce We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth. SIR DUDLKY NORTH. East India Trade. One God, one law, one element, And one far-ofl", divine event,... | |
| Alfred Zimmermann - 1905 - 456 sivua
...use them. For why are we surrounded with the sea? Surely, that^our wants at hörne might he supplyed by our navigation into other countries, the least...silks which our hands have never wrought; we drink of vineyards which we never planted; the treasures of those mines are ours in which we have never digged;... | |
| New York Public Library - 1914 - 616 sivua
...fancy. They may cause us to see and understand things of which we should otherwise have been ignorant. "We taste the spices of Arabia yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth," — that inscription is on the walls of the Library of Congress, and it describes alike the services... | |
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