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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... "
Bacon's Essays - Page 54
by Francis Bacon - 1881
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2

Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1836 - 382 pages
...are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely...; as if gardening were the greater perfection.— LORD BACOW. VOLUME THE SECOND. LONDON: OUR AND SMITH, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXXXVI. LONDON : BRADBURY...
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Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 2

Sir Joseph Paxton - Botany - 1836 - 384 pages
...gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegance, men eome to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. — LORD BACON. VOLUME TFIE SECOND. LONDON: ORR AND SMITH, PATERNOSTER ROW. MDCCCXXXVI. XT LONDON :...
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History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Aix-la-Chaoelle ...

Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1836 - 574 pages
...Bacon on this subject: "Further, a man shall see " that when ages advance in civility and politeness, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden " finely, as if gardening was the greater per" fection." Yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 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,...
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Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volumes 11-12

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...the prosperity or decline of the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad....
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 11

1838 - 542 pages
...the prosperity or decline of the most mighty slates. It is Lord Baron who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad....
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The Penny Cyclopędia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 11

Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 542 pages
...the prosperity or decline of the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad....
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The penny cyclopędia [ed. by G. Long]., Volume 11

Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1838 - 540 pages
...prosperity or decline of the most mighty suites. ]| is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do prow lo civility and elegancy men come to build stately sooner...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad....
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 12

United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...hisEssay on Gardens. " Whenagesgrowtociviliiy and elegancy," he says in that interesting composition, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In illustration of this assertion of Bacon, (if, indeed, any assertion of that wonderful man required...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...the spirits of in, m: without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works : 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,...
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