 | 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 522 pages
...the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that " when ages do grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1866 - 298 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...are but gross handiwork : 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 ['2] perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...the most mighty states. It is Lord Bacon who says that " when ages do grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." According to Sir John Malcolm, the Persians had gardens from the period... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...are but gross handy works : 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 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 wer» the greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - Fruit-culture - 1904 - 530 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. " A writer in the Spectator aptly remarks: ' ' I look upon the pleasures... | |
 | William Robinson - Gardening - 1869 - 786 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.'" As yet we are far from perfection as builders, and the garden holds... | |
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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... 
