 | 1851 - 608 páginas
...Gardens, in the first place, ought to furnish only pure delights. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks.' And yet gardens of old were systematically made scenes of voluptuousness and indecency under the sanction... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 páginas
....GARDENS. 1. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, rrrdeed, H is the purest of human pleasures, ft is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of ma,n...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : amd a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | 1852 - 604 páginas
...changed, has not been proved, nor have we reason to believe that such is ever the case. Л CARDEN. GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden : and, indeed,...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. — BACON. 256... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1852 - 564 páginas
...greater or more permanent satisfaction, than that of cultivating the earth and adorning our own property. "God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures," says Lord Bacon. And as the first man was shut out from the garden, in the cultivation of which no... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 páginas
...flower in her " sunny locks." L THE POETRY OF GARDENING; " Lilia mista rosis." — School Exercise. " GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that saying more than for his being the author of the '... | |
 | Thomas James - 1852 - 108 páginas
...flower in her " sunny locks." THE POETRY OF GARDENING: " Lilia mista rosis." — Softool Exercise. " GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that saying more than for his being the author of the '... | |
 | Sir George Ferguson Bowen - 1852 - 276 páginas
...fruits from all the provinces in Asia and Europe of which he has at different periods been governor. " God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that sentence almost more than for any thing in his whole... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 páginas
...firft planted a Garden. And indeed, it is the pureft of Human Pleafures. It is the greateft Refrefhment to the Spirits of Man ; without which, Buildings and Palaces are but grofs Handyworks : And a Man fliall ever fee, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 páginas
...stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed,...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | 1853 - 654 páginas
...style of Christian minister that this century has produced. (17.) " GOD ALMIOHTY," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces arc but gross handiworks." Passages of this spirit can be gathered from the choicest writers, in prose... | |
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GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. 
