 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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... | |
 | 1838 - 554 páginas
...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 of their first... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...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. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months... | |
 | Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 páginas
...which gave rise to the remark of Lord Bacon, that, " When ages grew to civility and elegance, men came to build stately, sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." In the account of their public gardens, by Pausanias, we learn, that they were the resort... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 442 páginas
...on a higher elevation than was dreamed of by any one else in his time in the passage, "When ages do grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately...to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection," Waller, at his residence at Beaconsfield, is said to have presented more than usual evidences... | |
 | Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Ripley - 1844 - 556 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with... | |
 | John Nowell - 1844 - 106 páginas
...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." Such was the opinion of Lord VERDLAM ; and it is the more worthy of observation as coming... | |
 | Charles Mason Hovey - 1845 - 504 páginas
...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." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit,... | |
 | 1845 - 496 páginas
...are bat 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.' There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific pursuit,... | |
 | New York State Agricultural Society - 1846 - 562 páginas
...gardening as rather a neglected art in Greece, and makes the following striking and philosophic remark : " That when ages grow to civility and elegance, men...to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." All writers agree in putting the fig at the head of fruit trees first cultivated, and... | |
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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... 
