 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Fruit trees - 1842 - 338 pages
...&c. 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 - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...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, it is the purest...is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man. 6 ' Burke (Reflections). 2 Swift. 3 Burke (Reflections). 4 Stewart's Philosophy, 35. & Johnson. * Bacon.... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...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 is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...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 - Botany - 1845 - 504 pages
...affords the surest evidence of a refined 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 refreahment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works ;... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1886 - 1470 pages
...Jakobs I. gethan hat: „God Almighty — so beginnt Baco von Verulam seinen Essay „Of Gardens" — first planted a garden; and indeed it is the purest...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...them to the palace itself. And here is the Forty-sixth, " Of Gardens," in full : — r God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...from them to the palace itself. And here is the Forty-sixth," Of Gardens," in full :— God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which huildings and palaces are hut gross handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... | |
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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... 
