 | 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 ; 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 - 1856 - 368 pages
...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... | |
 | George Lunt - New England - 1857 - 272 pages
...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." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit, is of very recent... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Floriculture - 1858 - 458 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, " hence a love of gardening, and a taste for gardening, are two distinct things, love, or desire for... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1879 - 672 pages
...should be employed. Lord Bacon says: "A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility aud elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Any pereon of taste ni i \ li ml keen delight in the beautiful effects of landscape gardening, but... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - Great Britain - 1858 - 420 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" Section." Yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...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 greater perfection. Essay on Gardens. — LORD BACON. GARMENTS. Man's best Give me my scallop shell of quiet, My staff'... | |
 | Samuel Hadden Parkes - Housing - 1864 - 120 pages
...but gross handy works, and a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civilisation and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." His lordship then proceeds to give an outline of what a London garden should be. It was, however, with... | |
 | Olmsted and Vaux (Firm), Frederick Law Olmsted - Landscape architecture - 1866 - 42 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." In the formation of country residences of the smallest pretensions far greater study and a far larger... | |
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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... 
