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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... "
Essays, orations and lectures - Page 156
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 3

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 680 pages
...historically. It hue been justly ob^ served by Lord Baron, that " a garden ie the purest of li unían pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever see that when...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 3

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 682 pages
...has been justly observed by Lord Bacon, that *' a garden is the purest of human pleasure»; it >э the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever sec that when...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...heartfelt ecstasy ! She gives to Honour, Love, and me. THE ENGLISH GARDEN. 3in Jpout ISoofes. A garden is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall i- v IT MM', that when ages grow to civility and elegancv, men come to build stately, sooner than to...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 4

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...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...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden, Bacon felt his mind purified from its grosser...
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The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 3

1822 - 600 pages
...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...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy-works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified from...
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The New Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal ..., Volume 3

1822 - 592 pages
...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...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are butgross handy- works." Perhaps in the shady walks of his garden. Bacon felt his mind purified from...
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The Pleasures of Human Life, Examined and Enumerated: With an Entertaining ...

John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...Almighty first planted a garden ; and that jt constitutes the purest source of human pleasures. A garden is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but of inferior value. Pomfret, in his Choice, does not forget to desire a garden to contribute to his...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 184

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...one Bacon has left us in his well-known essay. A garden to him was ' the purest of humane pleasures, the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and pallaces are but grosse handyworks.' The ' princelike' garden of the period should not, he thought,...
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A Picturesque Promenade Round Dorking, in Surrey

John Timbs - 1823 - 330 pages
...one of the most amusing and intellectual pursuits of rural life. " A garden," says my Lord Bacon, " is the purest of human pleasures : it is the greatest...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks" ; — and whoever is sceptical on this subject will do well to read over his eloquent essay...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...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...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...
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