 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility' and elegancy,3 men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty3 may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 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; as if gardening were the j;reatef perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...building and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility1 and elegancy/ men come to build stately, sooner than...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty3 may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of No.vember, you must... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Man fhall 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... | |
 | Illinois State Horticultural Society - Gardening - 1883 - 432 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." There is an inspiration in simply reading a description of his ideal garden, or rather gardens, for... | |
 | Gardening - 1902 - 626 pages
...good time is the main secret of successful gardening," Tin- Garden that I Love, by ALFRED AUSTIN. " I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there...severally, things of beauty may be then in season," Lord BACON'. PRESENTATION TO MR. JOHN WRIGHT.— At the annual meeting of the Worshipful Company of... | |
 | Play - 1937 - 800 pages
...palaces 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." — Francis Bacon. of the McKinley Vocational School and the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1842 - 564 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1971 - 316 pages
...which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks; 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 pages
...which building and palaces are but gross handyworks ; 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce our subject... | |
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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... 
