 | Walter Thornbury - England - 1856 - 462 pages
...staircase. Days of romance gone to the grave for ever. " 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 works," says Bacon. A garden was man's first... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...year of King Henry m. ESSAY XL VI. 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 building and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...them to the palace itself. XLVL— OF GARDENS. GOD Almignty 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 ; and a man shall ever see, that, when... | |
 | George Lunt - New England - 1857 - 276 pages
...intellectual community. " 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 handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...of King Sewry VII. KE ESSAY XLVI. OF GAEDENS. 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 but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages... | |
 | Floriculture - 1858 - 458 pages
...dull and uninteresting lecture. Our great English philosopher, Lord Bacon, says of gardening, " 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, and a man shall ever see that when ages... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...from them to the palace itself. XL VI. 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 handy works 7 : and a man shall ever see that when... | |
 | Elizabeth Stone - Burial - 1858 - 450 pages
...under heaven.' CHAPTER X. FLOWERS ON GRAVES. God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirit of man, BACON. God's own monuments, the flowers, which call to our minds the death, or rather... | |
 | North American review - 1860 - 634 pages
...accessories of rural comfort and taste. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Bacon, " 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." Man's primal home was a garden, and... | |
 | Henrietta Wilson - Gardening - 1863 - 218 pages
...a pleasanter In all the country round." MRS SOUTHEY. '• God Almighty first planted a garden : it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." LORD BACON. ME,MOIR MISS HENRIETTA WILSON. THE good and gifted writer of the following pages was the... | |
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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... 
