 | Charles McIntosh - Garden structures - 1853 - 916 pages
...progress there made in architecture. The former says, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The vale of Tempe, the Academus at Athens, and other public gardens of the time, seem, however, to... | |
 | 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
...are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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 greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...palaces are but gross handyworks: 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 greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | India - 1855 - 864 pages
...palaces are but gross handiworks ; 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 greater perfection." What breadth of mind is here! — what healthy freshness and simplicity of character, and how different... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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 greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...are but gross handy-works, and a man sliall 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 greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...are but gross handyworks ; 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 greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the... | |
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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... 
