 | 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... | |
 | 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 :... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...diminished and neglected, with the prosperity or decline of the most mighty slates. It is Lord Baron who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and...period of their first king Mahabad. We learn from Xcnophon that Cyrus considered them an indispensable appendage of his residences. ' Wherever he resides,... | |
 | 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...gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad. \Ve learn from Xonophnn that Cyrus considered them an indispeu-alile appendage of liis residences.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall ever see, that when ages . XXXIII. OF PLANTATIONS. Plantations are amongst...works. When the world was young, it begat more chi I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...without 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. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Mary Ann Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork; 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.' Yes, gardens are clearly significant of elegancy. He cannot be a bad man who loves either flowers or... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - Architecture, Domestic - 1841 - 618 pages
...which gave rise to the remark of Lord Bacon, that, " When ages grew to civility and elegance, men came to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In the account of their public gardens, by Pausanias, we learn, that they were the resort of the philosophers... | |
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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... 
