 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 440by Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 586 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1847 - 348 pages
...buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks : and man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." Hints were sometimes thrown out by the Howard Smiths, touching the folly of wasting large sums upon... | |
 | Calamus Kurrens (pseud.) - 1847 - 94 pages
...and buildings are but gross handyworks. A man " shall ever see that when ages grow to civility arid elegancy, men come to " build stately, sooner than...garden finely ; as if gardening were the " greater perfection."—LORD BACON. " Mira qusedam in colendis floribus suavitas, et delectatio."—CICERO.... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1847 - 426 pages
...man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, soon then to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it that in the Royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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, sooner than...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | 1848 - 400 pages
...regarded successful gardening as the last touch of civilization— " when nations grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely" — but we slightly differ from him — good roads, it strikes us, are about the ultimatum. The rich,... | |
 | Luther Tucker - 1849 - 396 pages
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 | James Fergusson - 1849 - 584 pages
...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 sooner than...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability which gives to buildings... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...building and palaces are bat grw» handy works : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this pleasure still exists in the human heart as... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pages
...palace* are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility anti elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfectioE. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | 1887 - 994 pages
...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, sooner than to garden finely: äs if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there... | |
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