...Joseph Addison in 1711. 'Our Tables are stored with Spices, and Oils, and wines: Our Rooms are rilled with Pyramids of China, and adorned with the workmanship...Our morning's Draught comes to us from the remotest Corner of the Earth: We repair our Bodies by the Drugs of America, and repose ourselves under Indian...

...Empires in America (1741), by John Oldmixon: he is writing about the Hudson's Bay Company Our tables are stored with spices and oils and wines. Our rooms are filled with [goods] from China and decorated with objects from Japan. Our morning drink comes from the remotest...

...England. Mr. Spectator reflects, when celebrating the internationalization of the Royal Exchange, that "Our Rooms are filled with Pyramids of China, and adorned with the Workmanship of Japan."7'2 The female body and the room that made up that female body were regularly imagined as being...

...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate; our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines: our rooms...the spice-islands our hot-beds ; the Persians our silk- weavers, and the Chinese our potters. Nature indeed furnishes us with the bare necessaries of...

...whole face of nature among us. Our ships are laden with the harvest of every climate. Our tables are stored with spices, and oils, and wines. Our rooms...China, and adorned with the workmanship of Japan. Our morning draught comes to us from the remotest corners of the earth. We repair our bodies by the drugs...