 | 1842 - 788 σελίδες
...the term, one of the last refinements of civilised life. ' A man shall ever see,' says Lord Bacon, ' that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely.' To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | 1848 - 634 σελίδες
...term, one of the last refinements of civilized life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord I! iron, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 σελίδες
...spirits of 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 to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 σελίδες
...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...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." Such was the opinion of Lord VERDLAM ; and it is the... | |
 | 1848 - 640 σελίδες
...last refinements of civilized life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord Bacon, " that when ages groAT to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1845 - 504 σελίδες
...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 to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture,... | |
 | 1886 - 1470 σελίδες
...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 to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do 1Ш &/ .-• }?->• ^ i; »'t , .• • 4'I-" hold... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 σελίδες
...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 to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal oidering of gardens there ought... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 σελίδες
...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross 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... | |
 | 1880 - 494 σελίδες
...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...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Many of our common flowers and even fruit-trees were... | |
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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... 
