 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 632 sider
...without skill, and almost without labor.9* But when the passages of the straits were thrown open foi trade, they alternately admitted the natural and artificial...were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia, and far as the sources of the Tanais and the Borysthenes ; whatsoever was manufactured by the skill... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 602 sider
...the wants, or gratify the luxury, of its numerous inhabitants. The sea-coast of Thrace and Bithyma, which languish under the weight of Turkish oppression,...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 sider
...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...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
 | Charles Francis Horne - 1905 - 440 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons, without skill and almost without labor. But when the passages of the straits were thrown open...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
 | John Benjamin Firth - 1905 - 466 sider
...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...artificial riches of the North and South, of the Euxine and the Mediterranean. Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 492 sider
...most exquisite fish, that are taken in their stated seasons without skill and almost without labour.14 But, when the passages of the Straits were thrown...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
 | Robert Alexander Aytoun - 1915 - 296 sider
...Mediterranean and in touch by land as well as by sea with the riches of east and west, north and south. " Whatever rude commodities were collected in the forests of Germany and Scythia ; whatsoever was manufactured by the skill of Europe and Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 sider
...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...manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia ; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
 | David Ricks, Michael Silk - 2000 - 176 sider
...place above all others was suited to be a focus of commerce: But when the passages of the Streights were thrown open for trade, they alternately admitted...was manufactured by the skill of Europe or Asia; the corn of Egypt, and the gems and spices of the farthest India, were brought by the varying winds into... | |
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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,... 
