... the most grateful burgundy. The works of a person that builds, begin immediately to decay ; while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building ; which, were it to remain in equal... the farmers magazine - Page 3991823Full view - About this book
| William Shenstone - 1804 - 228 pages
...pleasure, than building ; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...dilapidation, serve to wean us from our attachment to them. It is a custom in some countries to condemn the characters of those (after death) that have neither... | |
| William Shenstone - 1804 - 218 pages
...pleasure, than building ; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...dilapidation, serve to wean us from our attachment to them. It is a custom in some countries to condemn the characters of those (after death) that have neither... | |
| William Shenstone - 1804 - 222 pages
...pleasure, than building ; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...dilapidation, serve to wean us from our attachment to them. It is a custom in some countries to condemn the characters of those (after death) that have neither... | |
| 1812 - 314 pages
...pleasure than building ; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...dilapidation, serve to wean us from our attachment to them. It is a custom in some countries to condemn the characters of those (after death) that have neither... | |
| 1821 - 424 pages
...pleasure than building, which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would, at best, begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...dilapidation, serve to wean us from our attachment to them. It is a custom in some countries to condemn the characters of those (after death) that have neither... | |
| William Shenstone - 1868 - 362 pages
...pleasure, than building ; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...our love of life to take root and flourish with them ; •< them ; whereas the very sameness of our structures will, without the help of dilapidation, serve... | |
| William Shenstone - 1868 - 364 pages
...pleasure, than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance...indeed, if they cause our love of life to take root and nourish with them ; whereas the very sameness of our structures will, without the help of dilapidation,... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1876 - 412 pages
...rhaa building, which, were it t > remain in equal perfection, w uld at best begiu to moulder and wunt repairs in imagination. N"ow, trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that ie annual variety." — sh&ulone. -If it be the characteristic of a worldly man that he desecrates... | |
| Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that i annual variety. — Shenstone. TRIALS. TRIFLES. Trees the most lovingly shelter and shade us when,... | |
| Nan Fairbrother - 1974 - 278 pages
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