 | Parakunnel Joseph Thomas - East Indies - 1926 - 204 pages
...we surrounded with the sea ? Surely that our wants at home might be supplied by our navigation with other countries, the least and easiest labour. By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet we never feel the scorching sun that brings them forth. We shine in silks which our hands have not... | |
 | Oscar Jewell Harvey - Civic leaders - 1909 - 722 pages
...splendid National Library at Washington appears, among other inscriptions, this from an unknown author : "We taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth." Those who are fond of reading history, but are too ready to criticize unfavorably the work of the historian,... | |
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By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted. 
