 | 1849 - 602 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 páginas
...the 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...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 páginas
...stand at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it...to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palace* are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility anti... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 páginas
...anticipation is, the more Jireci aiid compendhmi is your search." BACON: DISEASES OF THE NUTMEG TREE* ' " God Almighty first planted a Garden, and indeed it is...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which building and palaces are bat grw» handy works : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1849 - 584 páginas
...effect. Bacon seems to have been of this opinion when he wrote in his forty-seventh Essay, — " God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages... | |
 | Andrew Jackson Downing - 1849 - 550 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 páginas
...at distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. GOD wooden posture as needs it must; Tor in bashfulness...go and come; but with bold men, upon like occasion, handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 páginas
...composed in, and inspired by, the floral beauties of this his favourite haunt. " God Almighty," he says, " first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handy- works." And he adds: — "Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
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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 handiworks. 
