 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...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, and on Gardens, with many pleasing... | |
 | John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfectioE. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there...beauty may be then in season. For December and January, aud the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter ; holly, ivy, bays,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1887 - 994 pages
...when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely: äs if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold...ought to be gardens for all the months in the year, in whieh, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and Jminary, and the latter... | |
 | James Fergusson - Aesthetics - 1849 - 584 pages
...; 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." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability which gives to buildings... | |
 | James Richardson Logan - 1849 - 914 pages
...: 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." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this pleasure still exists in the human heart as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...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...in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter; holly; ivy; bnys ; juniper ; cypress-trees;... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...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." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...amd 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 wdering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the monthsin the year ; in which, severally,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." AValler, at his residence at Beaconsficld, is said to have presented more than usual evidences of natural... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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...be then in season. For December, and January, and th latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter : holly, ivy, bays juniper,... | |
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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... 
