 I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all...  The Manchester iris - Page 21822Full view - About this book
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1853 - 424 pages
...pleasure, which we take in a Garden, as one of ) the most innocent delights in human life. A Garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable objects for meditation. — SPECT. Vol. vii. No. 477. CtIs* REFLECTIONS A FLOWER GARDEN. IN A LETTER... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 710 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjeets for meditation. I cannot but think the very complacency and satisfaetion which a man takes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 698 pages
...the pleasure which we take iu a garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay all its turtmlent passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 pages
...my opinion, indeed, I know not whether any other can be more happy : and not only in the discharge of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally...and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation." — Spectator, No 477. 1 Consitio, sowing or planting; insitio, grafting; repastinatio, trenching.... | |
 | James Hervey - Devotional literature - 1855 - 412 pages
...innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first Parents before the Fall. It ia naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness and tranquillity,...Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditationi Spectator, Vol. VII« No. 477. CONTENTS. Walk in fhe garden ; summer morning ; a soaring... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...my opinion, indeed, I know not whether any other can be more happy : and not only in the discharge of our first parents before the fall. It is naturally...to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. It gives ua a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects... | |
 | 1855 - 528 pages
...the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness aud tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent passions at rest. It gives us a great insight into the... | |
 | James Hervey - 1856 - 396 pages
...the pleasure, which we take in a Garden, as one of the most innocent delights in human life. A Garden was the habitation of our first parents before the...and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable objects for meditation. SPECT. vol. vii. No. 477. REFLECTIONS A FLOWER-GARDEN. IN A LETTER TO A LADY.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1856 - 430 pages
...happy : and not only in the discharge of first parents before the fall. It is naturally apt to nil the mind with calmness and tranquillity, and to lay...and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation." — Spectator, No. 477. * Consiiio, sowing or planting ; insilio, grafting ; repastinatio, trenching.... | |
 | Floriculture - 1856 - 452 pages
...busied themselves in garden pursuits. A garden was the habitation of our first parents before their fall. It is naturally apt to fill the mind with calmness...It gives us a great insight into the contrivance, goodness, and wisdom of Providence, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation. The very complacency... | |
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