 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks : 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... | |
 | Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...without which building 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 have repeatedly witnessed with delight the crowds of happy people who enjoy the beauties of Hampton... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Garden structures - 1853 - 916 pages
...in Greece, notwithstanding the progress there made in architecture. The former says, "that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The vale of Tempi, the Academus at Athens, and other public gardens of the time, seem, however, to... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1853 - 410 pages
...on this subject. " Further, a man " shall see that when ages advance in civility and po" liteness, 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... | |
 | Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1853 - 426 pages
...on this subject. " Further, a man " shall see that when ages advance in civility and po" liteness, 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall ever see, that when ages dedications of books and writings, as to patrons, to be commended : for that books such I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; 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." What breadth of mind is here! — what healthy freshness and simplicity of character, and how different... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works, and a man sliall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the... | |
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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... 
