 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...palace itself. i Ante-chamber. 2 With-drawing room. [Curious Knotted Garden.] XLVI.— OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...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... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...» not wet and cloddy, but works freely. Attend to neatness етегу where, and destroy vermin.* God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. Bacon. The attempered... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1853 - 654 pages
...style of Christian minister that this century has produced. (17.) " GOD ALMIGHTY," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which"buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." Passages of this spirit... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Fruit trees - 1842 - 338 pages
...Grapetinea, Silk, Strawberries, &.c. &,c. By Thomaa G. Fessenden, Ettitor of the New £ngland Farmer. "God Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of tyiman pleasures : it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which tuLdings and... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...larger scale; but I continue to keep up a due succession, which, to a floral epicure, is every thing. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed,...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.... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...damascene, To yield him fruit, untouch'd till Autumn came, And the plane-tree to minister its shade. " GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...phenomena of the growth of trees. " God Almighty," says he, in his quaint but emphatic language, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest...pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handywork." The garden at Gorhambury... | |
 | 1844 - 628 pages
...therefore, am 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 refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." One can almost fancy... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...a house in a hole or on a pinnacle. " God Almighty first planted a garden," says Lord Bacon, " and 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... | |
 | Fruit-culture - 1845 - 584 pages
...the suiest evidence of a refined and intellectual community. ' ' God Almighty,' says Lord Bacon, ' first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest...pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works; and a man shall 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... 
