 | India - 1855 - 864 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." What breadth of mind is here! — what healthy freshness and simplicity of character, and how different... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 pages
...and a man sliall 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 - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...season. For December, and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things as are green all winter: holly, ivy, bays, juniper, cypress-trees,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...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...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty3 may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...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...months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty3 may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of No.vember, you must... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...Man fhall ever fee, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancy, Men come to Build Stately, fooner than to Garden finely ; as if Gardening were the greater...Gardens for all the Months in the Year ; in which, feverally, Things of Beauty may be then in Seafon. For December and January, and the Latter Part of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English literature - 1858 - 812 pages
...when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely 8 ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do...be gardens for all the months in the year; in which 1 ad angnlos iluoi laterii tranneni in mlario lecvndo. * Slut autem eonclavia ilia rebus curiosis omnigenis... | |
 | George Lunt - New England - 1857 - 272 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." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit, is of very recent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely 8 ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do...gardens for all the months in the year ; in which 1 ad ángulos duo» loterie tranêversi in sotarlo secundo. 1 Sint autem conclavia iOa rébus curîosis... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely 8 ; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do...gardens for all the months in the year ; in which i ad angulos duos lateris transversi in solario secundo. * Sint autem conclavia ilia rebus curiosis... | |
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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... 
