 | English literature - 1852 - 620 pages
...first place, ought to furnish only pure delights. ' God Almighty' (says Lord Bacon) ' first planted ,1 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF 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 handy... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...distance, with »ome low galleries, to pass from them to the palace itself. (ftartrrns. .vJOD 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. 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... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from iciii to the palace itself. XLVII. OF GARDENS. 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " 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 handy-works."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLV1I. OF GARDENS. 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... | |
 | 1822 - 592 pages
...garden seems to have been the supreme delight of our old authors. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, "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 handy-works."... | |
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God Almighty,' says one of the wisest men that ever adorned humanity, ‘first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. 
