 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1853 - 410 páginas
...on this subject. " Further, a man " shall see that when ages advance in civility and po" liteness, men come to build stately sooner than to " garden finely, as if gardening was the greater per" fection." Yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 páginas
...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. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 páginas
...are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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 ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | 1855 - 864 páginas
...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." What breadth of mind is here! — what healthy freshness and simplicity of character,... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 páginas
...are but gross handy-works, 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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 páginas
...are but gross handiwork ; and as men 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 ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1855 - 296 páginas
...Homer of course meant to attach to a Royal residence as Eoyal a garden; but as Bacon says, '.'men begin to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." The mansion of Alcinous was of brazen walls with golden columns ; and the Greeks and Eomans... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 páginas
...are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility' and elegancy, 5 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 for all the months... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 páginas
...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. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
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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... 
