| John Evans - 1817 - 610 Seiten
...beguile the senses and to exhilarate the heart. " A Garden,1' says LORD BACON, " is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the...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... | |
| 1817 - 590 Seiten
...of freedom and independence of its possessor. 'A garden,' says Lord Bacon, 'is the purest of human pleasures; 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 Seiten
...itself. ©( CSartottf*. fjrOD Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 Seiten
...them to the palace itself. \JOD Almighty first planted a Garden; and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 Seiten
...itself. XLVI. OF GARDENS. GOD Almighty first planted a garden : and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits...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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 Seiten
...itself. XLVII. OF GARDENS. 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 handy-works: and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1821 - 614 Seiten
...few brief specimens. ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the...man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come... | |
| 1821 - 416 Seiten
.... . XLVII. OF GARDENS. 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 pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,... | |
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