 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...  Bacon's Essays - Page 54by Francis Bacon - 1881Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...the 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,...for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...the 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,...for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages rrow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November,... | |
 | Horace Smith - English essays - 1825 - 370 pages
...in splenetic vacancy. Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Gardening - 1828 - 626 pages
...notwithstanding the progress of the sister art of architecture, which gave rise to his lordship's remark, " That when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The garden of Tarqumius Superbus, five hundred and four years before Christ, is mentioned by Livy and... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1826 - 306 pages
...allowance, outweigh a whole theatre of others." I have always been much pleased with Bacon's remark, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely ;" as if gardening were the greater perfection. A fine taste in gardening has not till lately been much estimated. Ben Jonson coldly says, " In a meadow,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...In the royal ordering of gardcru, there ought to be garden* for all the months in the year. Bacon. When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Id. Gardeners tread down any loos.' ground, after they have sown onions or turnips. /•.'. Natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...the spirits of man; without which buildings and palace? are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy,...for all the months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November,... | |
 | Horticulture - 1834 - 550 pages
...above description too, well corroborates that admirable remark with which the essay commences; — "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finelv, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Our palaces and cathedrals are exumt proofs of... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...notwithstanding the progress of the sister art of architecture ; which gave rise to the remark of the former, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. " 32. The vale of Tempe, however, as described in the third book of /Elian's Various History, and the... | |
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