 | Calamus Kurrens (pseud.) - 1847 - 94 Seiten
...made, " and the first city, Cain."—COWLET. " God Almighty first planted a garden; and it is indeed the purest of " human pleasures. It is the greatest...refreshment to the spirits of man : " without which palaces and buildings are but gross handyworks. A man " shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...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...spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 Seiten
...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...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handywork." The garden at Gorhambury was laid out with great taste, and according to... | |
 | 1849 - 602 Seiten
...phenomena of the growth of trees. " God Almighty," says he, in his quaint but emphatic language, " such are but gross handywork." The garden at Gorhambury was laid out with great taste, and according to... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 Seiten
...distance, with some low galleries to pass from them to the palace itself. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest...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 Seiten
...the more Jireci aiid compendhmi is your search." BACON: DISEASES OF THE NUTMEG TREE* ' " God Almighty first planted a Garden, and indeed it is the purest...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... | |
 | 1887 - 994 Seiten
...— so beginnt Baco von Verulara seinen Essay „Of Gardens" — first planted a garden; and iudeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest...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,... | |
 | James Fergusson - 1849 - 584 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 Seiten
...peculiar nature of all things which are produced from the earth : which generates * " God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest...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,... | |
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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... 
