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Seite 340 - 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 handiwork : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater ['2] perfection.
Seite 3 - I have taken note of it ; the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe.— How long hast thou been a grave-maker?
Seite 340 - 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...
Seite 118 - I doubt whether a soldier under punishment ever stood more in need of a bullet to gnaw for the assuagement of his agony, than I while silently clenching my teeth in expectation of the old gentleman's decision on a point so nearly involving my respectability in life. I renounced all thoughts of the prospects he had held out. I felt that his confidence in my well-doing was gone for ever. My Castles in the Air must either melt into the clouds or become precipitated into the mire. But if my guardian...