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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 149
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 2

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 508 pages
...respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to " build stately...; as " if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle, appears, not only from the earlier dramatic...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the ..., Volume 2

Aristotle, Thomas Twining - Aesthetics - 1812 - 516 pages
...respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : "A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden ßnely ; as " if gardening were the greater perfectian." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted...
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Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, Translated: With Notes on the Translation ...

Aristotle - Aesthetics - 1815 - 492 pages
...respect t« the superiority of gardening to architecture : " A man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted by Aristotle appears, not only from the earlier dramatic...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 16

English literature - 1817 - 590 pages
...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,...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' Long after this great man wrote, an English garden was an inclosure, where all view of the surrounding...
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An excursion to Windsor, in July 1810. Also A sail down the river Medway ...

John Evans - 1817 - 610 pages
...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,...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." At FROGMORE HER MAJESTY has held several fetes, to which the public, were admitted. The first was May...
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Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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,...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. 1 do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the...
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The British Prose Writers, Volume 1

British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...which buildings and pulaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beanty may be then in season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 2

1821 - 658 pages
...Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 15; Volume 33

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1821 - 614 pages
...which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works: and aman shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. -And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, (where it comes and goes, like the warbling...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal

English literature - 1821 - 656 pages
...Having mentioned the name of Bacon, let us not omit to record his assertion, that " when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection :" a remark no less honourable to the noble science of horticulture, than historically accordant with...
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