 | 1832 - 368 str.
...independently of their abstract beauty, deserved favorite« with everyone. Bacon says of a garden, " it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirit of man." His observation applies equally to such few flower) as wo, who are doomed to pass our... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 str.
...galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ;...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 and elegancy,... | |
 | 1834 - 550 str.
...fortunate. Thus Lord Bacon begins his Essay : — " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed 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 see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1835 - 318 str.
...By Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor of the New fingland Farmer. 14 God Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures : it...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which Luildings and palaces are but gross handy-works. — Bacon's Essays." In conformity to the act of the... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 558 str.
...beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures, it...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as the breath... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - 1836 - 554 str.
...beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures, it...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks." Of the bright and many coloured blossoms of the vegetable kingdom he poetically adds "as the breath... | |
 | Sir Joseph Paxton - 1836 - 384 str.
...r PAXTON'S MAGAZINE OF BOTANY, REGISTER OF FLOWERING PLANTS. God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ;...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which building* and palaces are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to... | |
 | Rebecca Hey - 1837 - 386 str.
...buds to harden, and the fruits to grow." "Goo ALMIGHTY first planted a garden," says Lord Bacon : " it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man." And in so saying he does not speak unadvisedly, or from envy or ignorance, for he had tasted, and that... | |
 | 1852 - 618 str.
...place, ought to furnish only pure delights. ' God Almighty' (says Lord Bacon) ' first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ;...spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces arc but gross handyworks.' And yet gardens of old were systematically made scenes of voluptuousness... | |
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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... 
