 | Frederick William Shelton - Country life - 1853 - 376 pages
...countrymen after some time be passed over." " There ought," says he, " to be gardens for every month in the year, in which severally things of beauty may be then in season. For November, December, January and February, you must take such things as be green all winter, holly,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...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,...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be in season. ****«••• And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...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,...year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be in season. * * * * * * * * And because the breath of flowers is far sweater in the air (where it comes... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...which buildings and palaces arc but gross handiwork ; and as men shall ever se£, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do Imld it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the mouths in the year,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 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...finely. As if gardening were the greater perfection." What breadth of mind is here! — what healthy freshness and simplicity of character, and how different... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...of course meant to attach to a Royal residence as Eoyal a garden ; but as Bacon says, '.'men begin to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The mansion of Alcinous was of brazen walls with golden columns ; and the Greeks and Eomans had houses... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 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 sooner than to garden finely ; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Easay 46. such great trunks and branches... | |
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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... 
