 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 432 pages
...ordering of gardcru, there ought to be garden* for all the months in the year. Bacon. When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. Id. Gardeners tread down any loos.' ground, after they have sown onions or turnips. /•.'. Natural... | |
 | Horticulture - 1834 - 550 pages
...description too, well corroborates that admirable remark with which the essay commences; — "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finelv, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Our palaces and cathedrals are exumt proofs of... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Arboriculture - 1835 - 1326 pages
...the sister art of architecture ; which gave rise to the remark of the former, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. " 32. The vale of Tempe, however, as described in the third book of /Elian's Various History, and the... | |
 | 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 :... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - England - 1836 - 558 pages
...chamberlains, terraces, fountains, &c. The pleasure grounds, he says should be calculated for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Alfred John Kempe - England - 1836 - 558 pages
...chamberlains, terraces, fountains, &c. The pleasure grounds, he says should be calculated for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. " God Almighty !" observes the sage essayist, " first planted a garden, and indeed it is the purest... | |
 | 1838 - 542 pages
...prosperity or decline of the most mighty slates. It is Lord Baron who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1838 - 1056 pages
...prosperity or decline of the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that ' when ages do grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period of their first king Mahabad.... | |
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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... 
