The Spectator, No. 69 (19 May 1711) [ Places ]
… of the like Nature; That our Climate of itself, and without the Assistances of Art, can make no further Advances towards a Plumb than to a Sloe, and carries an Apple to no greater a Perfection than a Crab: That [our [2] ] Melons, our … his Wool for Rubies. The Mahometans are clothed in our British Manufacture, and the Inhabitants of the frozen Zone warmed with the Fleeces of our Sheep. When I have been upon the 'Change, I have often fancied one of our old Kings …
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