 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 156by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 558 pages
...then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " 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." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 558 pages
...then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " 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." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1836 - 384 pages
...MAGAZINE OF BOTANY, REGISTER OF FLOWERING PLANTS. 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 handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 pages
...buds to harden, and the fruits to grow." "Goo ALMIGHTY first planted a garden," says Lord Bacon : " it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." And in so saying he does not speak unadvisedly, or from envy or ignorance, for he had tasted, and that... | |
 | 1852 - 618 pages
...furnish only pure delights. ' 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 arc but gross handyworks.' And yet gardens of old were systematically made scenes of voluptuousness... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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 refreshment of the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1839 - 320 pages
...G. FE SSENDEJV , EDITOR OP THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. GOD ALMIOHTY 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. BACON'S ESSAYS. THIRTEENTH EDITION. BOSTON: OTIS, BROADERS, & COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1839 - 320 pages
...G. Fessenden, Editor of the New Kngland Farmer. ''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 cui-dings and palaces are but gross handy,works. — Bacon's Essays." In conformity to the act of the... | |
 | M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...observations of Lord Bacon in his essay on gardening: — '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 handiwork; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1840 - 504 pages
...the works of man. Lord Bacon has said of the garden, "it affords the purest of human pleasures — the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man —...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." We alluded, while noticing the Farmer's Companion, to the prevailing desire, among farmers, to bring... | |
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