 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
 | 1840 - 516 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...room. [Curious Knotted Garden.] XLVI.— 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 in, m: without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that,... | |
 | 1853 - 654 pages
...century has produced. (17.) " 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." Passages of this spirit can be gathered from... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1842 - 338 pages
...BYTHOMAS G. PESSENDKN, EDITOR OP THE NEW ENGLAND FAHMKR. GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Gnnlen ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures: it is the greatest refreshment tn ihe spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy- wnrfcs. BACON'S KBSAYS,... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...succession, which, to a floral epicure, is every thing. 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. 6 ' Burke (Reflections). 2 Swift. 3 Burke (Reflections). 4 Stewart's Philosophy, 35. & Johnson. * Bacon.... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 pages
...the most painstaking scholar his equal : no more will gardening give the advantage of a happy site to a house in a hole or on a pinnacle. " God Almighty...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... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
..." God Almighty," says he, in his quaint but emphatic language, " 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 handywork." The garden at Gorhambury was laid out with great taste, and according to the rules of the... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...obliged to give it from memory. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Francis Bacon ; " and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." One can almost fancy the Chancellor leaning on the arm of a friend, and walking in his... | |
 | 1845 - 584 pages
...and intellectual community. ' ' 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; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1845 - 504 pages
...planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreahment to the spirits of man ; 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... | |
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