 | 1848 - 640 pages
...last refinements of civilized life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord Bacon, " that when ages groAT to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...last refinements of civilized life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord I! iron, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were... | |
 | Fruit-culture - 1845 - 584 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.' There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit, is of very recent... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...bandy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build (tately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were...in season. For December and January and the latter nart of November you must take such things as are green all winter ; holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 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...the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal oidering of gardens there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, iu which, severally,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...handy-works. And a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to huild stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening...it in the royal ordering of gardens there ought to he gardens for all the months in the year, iu which, severally, things of heauty may he then in season.... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1886 - 1470 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." Wie tritt hier sogleich die kulturhistorische und künstlerische Erfassung der Gartenanlage, die harmonische... | |
 | Agriculture - 1846 - 418 pages
...than refined horticultural pursuits. " When nations grow to civility and elegance," said Lord Bacon, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection," — a perfection on the prevalence of which, even our republican edifice in a great measure must owe... | |
 | The Cultivator - 1846 - 408 pages
...than refined horticultural pursuits. " When nations grow to civility and elegance," said Lord Bacon, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection,"—a perfection on the prevalence of which, even our republican edifice in a great measure... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances) - 1847 - 348 pages
...which, 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...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... | |
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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... 
