 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1971 - 316 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1924 - 970 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam,... | |
 | English literature - 1816 - 592 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.' Long after this great man wrote, an English garden was an inclosure,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1902 - 876 pages
...URBAXUS SYLVAX. THE TRUE ORDERING OF GARDENS. ' WHEN ages grow to civility and elegancy,' said Bacon, ' men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection.' And then he unwittingly impales himself on the point of his own epigram... | |
 | Charles W. Moore, William John Mitchell, William Turnbull - Architecture - 1988 - 286 pages
...are but Grosse Handy-works: And a Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stately, sooner than to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater Perfection. His first principle of garden design is that "there ought to be Gardens,... | |
 | John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - Botany - 1897 - 524 pages
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The plants, cuttings, and seeds, both economical and ornamental, from... | |
 | John Merle Coulter, M.S. Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Joseph Charles Arthur - Botany - 1897 - 542 pages
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see, that where ages grow to civility and elegancy men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection." The plants, cuttings, and seeds, both economical and ornamental, from... | |
 | John C. Shepherd, G. A. Jellicoe - Gardening - 1993 - 214 pages
...are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that ichen ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely , as if gardening were the greater per/eclion." — BACON — Essav on Gardens. 22 ARCHITECTURE OF THE GARDEN CHRONOLOGICAL... | |
 | Patrick Collinson, Anthony Fletcher, Peter Roberts - History - 2006 - 402 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.1 With unsurpassed eloquence Sir Francis Bacon captures the significance... | |
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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... 
