 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 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." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : amd 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 wdering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the monthsin the year ; in which, severally,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...dreamed of by any one else in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." AValler, at his residence at Beaconsficld, is said to have presented more than usual evidences of natural... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 874 pages
...dreamed of by any one else in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Waller, at his residence at Beaconsfield, is said to have presented more than usual evidences of natural... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 902 pages
...dreamed o: by any one else in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and ele gance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening wcri the greater perfection." Waller, at his residence at Beaconsfield, is said to have pre sentcd... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1851 - 572 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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,...be then in season. For December, and January, and th latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter : holly, ivy, bays juniper,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...Man fliall ever fee, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come to Build Stately, fooner than to Garden finely : As if Gardening were the greater...Gardens, for all the Months in the Year : In which, feverally, Things of Beauty may be then in Seafon. For December, and January, and the Latter Part of... | |
 | Flower garden - 1852 - 116 pages
...last refinements of civilised life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord Bacon, " 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... | |
 | Charles McIntosh - Garden structures - 1853 - 916 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
