 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Gardening - 1839 - 320 pages
...SILK, STRAWBERRIES, &c. &c. BYTHOMAS G. FE SSENDEJV , EDITOR OP THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. GOD ALMIOHTY first planted a Garden ; and indeed it is the purest...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works. BACON'S ESSAYS. THIRTEENTH EDITION. BOSTON: OTIS, BROADERS, & COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS,... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Gardening - 1839 - 320 pages
...Gardening, Grapetines, Silk, Strawberries, &c. &c. By Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor of the New Kngland Farmer. ''God Almighty first planted a Garden ; and indeed...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which cui-dings and palaces are but gross handy,works. — Bacon's Essays." In conformity to the act of the... | |
 | Mary Ann Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...subject be wound up without recalling the observations of Lord Bacon in his essay on gardening: — 'God Almighty first planted a garden; and indeed it...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...palace itself. i Ante-chamber. 2 With-drawing room. [Curious Knotted Garden.] XLVI.— OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of in, m: without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : and a man shall ever see, that,... | |
 | Fruit-culture - 1840 - 516 pages
...the works of man. Lord Bacon has said of the garden, "it affords the purest of human pleasures — the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man —...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." We alluded, while noticing the .Farmer's Companion, to the prevailing desire, among farmers,... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - Botany - 1840 - 504 pages
...the works of man. Lord Bacon has said of the garden, "it affords the purest of human pleasures — the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man —...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." We alluded, while noticing the Farmer's Companion, to the prevailing desire, among farmers,... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...» not wet and cloddy, but works freely. Attend to neatness етегу where, and destroy vermin.* God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed,...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. Bacon. The attempered organ, that even saddest . thought« Mix with fume sweet sensations,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1853 - 654 pages
...style of Christian minister that this century has produced. (17.) " GOD ALMIGHTY," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which"buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks." Passages of this spirit can be gathered from... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - Fruit trees - 1842 - 338 pages
...Grapetinea, Silk, Strawberries, &.c. &,c. By Thomaa G. Fessenden, Ettitor of the New £ngland Farmer. "God Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of tyiman pleasures : it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which tuLdings and... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...larger scale; but I continue to keep up a due succession, which, to a floral epicure, is every thing. God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed,...is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man. 6 ' Burke (Reflections). 2 Swift. 3 Burke (Reflections). 4 Stewart's Philosophy, 35. & Johnson. * Bacon.... | |
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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... 
