 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 handiworks...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 351by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...things which are produced from the earth : wliich generates * " God Almiglfty first planted a garden j and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which tmildings and palaces are. hut gross handy-works, and u man lihiill ever sec, that, when ages grow... | |
 | Capesthorne - 1850 - 78 pages
...Well said Lord Bacon, " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the finest of humane pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." Now you may be a Sunday School Teacher — very possibly ypu have been a Sunday Scholar. If so, you... | |
 | William Henry Smyth - Astronomical observatories - 1851 - 458 pages
...illustrious Bacon, whose zeal in this cause was so ardent, that he opened his essay on the subject with " God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." He did not admire the knots or figures of divers-coloured earths, they being but toys—" you may see... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...Gardens, in the first place, ought to furnish only pure delights. " God Almighty," says Lord Bacon, " first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks.' And yet gardens of old were systematically made scenes of voluptuousness and indecency under the sanction... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
....GARDENS. 1. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, rrrdeed, H is the purest of human pleasures, ft is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of ma,n...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : amd a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...terraces leaded aloft, and fairly garnished on the three sides ; and cloistered on the inside writh pillars, and not with arches below. As for offices,...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... | |
 | 1852 - 604 pages
...changed, has not been proved, nor have we reason to believe that such is ever the case. Л CARDEN. GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden : and, indeed,...of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. — BACON. 256... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - Architecture, Domestic - 1852 - 564 pages
...greater or more permanent satisfaction, than that of cultivating the earth and adorning our own property. "God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures," says Lord Bacon. And as the first man was shut out from the garden, in the cultivation of which no... | |
 | Sir George Ferguson Bowen - Greece - 1852 - 276 pages
...fruits from all the provinces in Asia and Europe of which he has at different periods been governor. " God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that sentence almost more than for any thing in his whole... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...flower in her " sunny locks." L THE POETRY OF GARDENING; " Lilia mista rosis." — School Exercise. " GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of all human pleasures." I love Lord Bacon for that saying more than for his being the author of the '... | |
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