 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...DISEASES OF THE NUTMEG TREE* ' " 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 building and palaces are bat grw» handy works : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...the earth : which generates * " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works, and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Capesthorne - 1850 - 78 pages
...Well said Lord Bacon, " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the finest of humane pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." Now you may be a Sunday School Teacher — very possibly ypu have been a Sunday Scholar.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...earth : wliich generates * " God Almiglfty first planted a garden j and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which tmildings and palaces are. hut gross handy-works, and u man lihiill ever sec, that, when ages grow... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...planted a garden : and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...his essay on the subject with " God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." He did not admire the knots or figures of divers-coloured earths, they being but toys—"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
....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...without 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... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...the term, one of the last refinements of civilised life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord Bacon, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | 1852 - 604 pages
...planted a garden : and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. — BACON. 256 INDEX. Abstinence . . A Ca,e of Serofula . . Aerostic, an Action of Drugs... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...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... | |
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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 handyworks... 
