 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...  The Horticultural Register - Page 501834Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of in, m: without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally,... | |
 | M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' Yes, gardens are clearly significant of elegancy. He cannot be a bad man who loves either flowers or... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...which gave rise to the remark of Lord Bacon, that, " When ages grew to civility and elegance, men came to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In the account of their public gardens, by Pausanias, we learn, that they were the resort of the philosophers... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." Such was the opinion of Lord VERDLAM ; and it is the more worthy of observation as coming from a man... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - Transcendentalism - 1844 - 556 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - Botany - 1845 - 504 pages
...refreahment 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...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit, is of very recent... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...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...the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1886 - 1468 pages
...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...finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection." Wie tritt hier sogleich die kulturhistorische und künstlerische Erfassung der Gartenanlage, die harmonische... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to huild stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening...the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens there ought to he gardens for all the months in the year, iu which, severally,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...bandy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build (tately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in which, severally,... | |
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