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" Inigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal reformers of taste among the learned and noble men of this period, the great LORD CHANCELLOR BACON stands in the foremost rank ; and his published opinions on architecture and gardening, are decisive... "
Metropolitan Improvements; Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a ... - Page 105
by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 316 pages
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Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed ...

James Elmes - Architecture - 1827 - 352 pages
...Sir William Petty computes its population to have doubled itself every forty years, from the y tar 1600 ; consequently, in 1680 it must have contained...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in ...

Architecture - 1828 - 512 pages
...reformation of the architecture of London, which is also much indebted to the genius and industry of Iñigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or London in the Nineteenth Century: Displayed in ...

Architecture - 1828 - 198 pages
...Inigo Jones, notwithstanding his staunch papism, to build for him his splendid palace of Whitehall j whose banqueting house and splendid ceiling, by Rubens,...this period, which INIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and him> self had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary view of the new palace now building...
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Metropolitan Improvements, Or London in the 19th Century

1833 - 536 pages
...reformation of the architecture of London, which is also much indebted to the genius and industry of Iñigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary...
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The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste, Volume 1

Country life - 1847 - 614 pages
...essential. Practically, therefore, they seem to evince their concurrence in the opinion of Lord Verulam, that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." The log cabin, at first intended as a castle of security against savages and wild beasts, as well as...
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Lippincott's Magazine of Literature, Science and Education, Volume 6

1870 - 708 pages
...established, and there is no maxim of Bacon less applicable to our condition than that in which tfe claims that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." On the contrary, our houses are built to look at, and not to live in. They are not our property, but...
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Character of Renaissance Architecture

Charles Herbert Moore - Architecture, Renaissance - 1905 - 334 pages
...and generally good proportions. It embodies the essentially English idea, as expressed by Lord Bacon, that, " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." J And while this remark may seem to ignore architecture as such, ie the fine art of beautiful building,...
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The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Volume 1

Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton - Great Britain - 1907 - 550 pages
...much more serious conception of the importance and principles of architecture. Bacon begins by saying that' Houses are built to live in, and not to look on', and he makes comfort rather than uniformity the main object of the builder. His imaginary house is...
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OLD NEW ENGLAND DOORWAYS

ALBERT G. ROBINSON - 1919 - 184 pages
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their...
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Old New England Doorways

Albert Gardner Robinson - Architecture - 1919 - 168 pages
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their...
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