 | SEVERAL HANDS. - 1781 - 588 pages
...ftated feafons, without ikill, and almoft without labour. But when the paííages of the Strcights were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted...the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were coilefled in the forefts of Germany and Scythia, as far as the fourçes of the Tañáis and the Boryfthenes... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...exquisite fish, that are taken, in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forest* of German}' and Scythia, as far as the sources of th« Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatsoever... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...without skill and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open for 4 trade, they alternately admitted the natural and artificial riches of the north and south of theEuxine and of the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Middle East - 1838 - 278 pages
...population, more wealth, and more capital in the country than there ever has been under Turkish misrule. " Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests...Germany and Scythia, as far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes, whatsoever was manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia, the corn of... | |
 | Charles Greenstreet Addison - Damascus - 1838 - 492 pages
...population, more wealth, and more capital in the country than there ever has been under Turkish misrule. " Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests...Germany and Scythia, as far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes, whatsoever was manufactured .by the skill of Europe or Asia, the corn of... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pages
...niost exquisite fish that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill and almost without labour. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...admitted the natural and artificial riches of the north aud south, of the Euxine and of the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 466 pages
...would have repeated the mistake of the blind Chalcedonians. without skill, and almost without labour.23 But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...Germany and Scythia, as far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatsoever was manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn... | |
 | Universalism - 1859 - 534 pages
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without tabor. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...and artificial riches of the north and south, of the E usine and of the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany... | |
 | James Hamilton Fyfe - 1864 - 366 pages
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...commodities were collected in the forests of Germany or Scythia, as far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatever was manufactured by... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill, and almost without labour. But when the passages of the Straits were thrown open...commodities were collected in the forests of Germany or Scythia ; whatever was manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt and the gems... | |
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Turkish oppression, still exhibit a rich prospect of vineyards, of gardens, and of plentiful harvests; and the Propontis has ever been renowned for an inexhaustible store of the most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill,... 
