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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 handiworks. "
The Essays Or Counsels, Moral, Economical and Political: With Elegant ... - Page 174
by Francis Bacon - 1818 - 290 pages
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 35

1853 - 654 pages
...style of Christian minister that this century has produced. (17.) " GOD ALMIOHTY," says Lord Bacon, "first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest...spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces arc but gross handiworks." Passages of this spirit can be gathered from the choicest writers, in prose...
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Court Culture and the Origins of a Royalist Tradition in Early Stuart England

Robert Malcolm Smuts - 1987 - 340 pages
...almighty first planted a Garden," wrote Bacon, "and indeed it is the purest of human pleasures . . . and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to huild stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater...
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The Theory and Analysis of Drama

Manfred Pfister - 1988 - 364 pages
...explicitly to both the iconographic and emblematic significance and ironic function of the setting: 'God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks.' Thus begins Francis Bacon's eulogy to the park and at this point the greatest effort should be made...
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The Poetics of Gardens

Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - 1988 - 286 pages
...civilization. The essay begins: GOD Almightie first Planted a Garden. And indeed, it is the Purest of Humane pleasures. It is the Greatest Refreshment to the Spirits of Man; Without which, Buildings and Pallaces are but Grosse Handy-works: And a Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civility and...
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The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...level all distinctions. Samuel Footc (1720-1777) English dramatist Set Butler on FAITH Gardens God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Annihilating all that's made To a green thought...
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Botanical Gazette, Volume 24

John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - 1897 - 524 pages
...an important factor in rendering that advance more easy and more certain. He says (Essay 46), "God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build...
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Botanical Gazette, Volume 24

John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - 1897 - 542 pages
...an important factor in rendering that advance more easy and more certain. He says (Essay 46), "God Almighty first planted a garden, and indeed it is...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build...
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The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections: A ...

Holden Arboretum, Cleveland Medical Library Association, Garden Center of Greater Cleveland - 1992 - 1072 pages
...BY THOMAS G. FESSENDEN, | EDITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. | [short ornamental rule] | [rule] | GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden; and indeed it is...| buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works [23 dots] BACON'S ESSAYS. | [broken rule] | [short thick thin double rule] | Boston: | PUBLISHED BY...
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Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing

George Douglas Atkins - 1992 - 222 pages
...continue to repress our desire? CHAPTER TWO In Other Words: Gardening for LoveThe Work of the Essayist God Almighty first planted a garden. And Indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. BACON, Essays If you would know the power of character, see how much you would impoverish the world,...
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The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations

Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pages
...the newspaper obituaries on her dejth, 1 5 April 1990. See j I so влпЬ« on ACTORS. GARDENS 1 God KESPEARÍ (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Hamlcl. in Hamlet, acl 5, sc. 1 . FRANCIS BACON (1 561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, ¿talesman. Essays, "Of Gardens" (1597-1625)....
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