 | 1970 - 934 páginas
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 | 1954 - 234 páginas
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1971 - 316 páginas
...palaces 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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with... | |
 | Charles Van Doren - 1972 - 452 páginas
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 | 1924 - 1086 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce... | |
 | 1924 - 970 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. THIS familiar, not to say hackneyed, quotation from Bacon of Verulam, may fitly introduce... | |
 | 1972 - 520 páginas
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 | Indiana Horticultural Society - 1892 - 256 páginas
...greatest refreshment of the spirits of man, without which palaces and buildings are but gross handy-works; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." It is pre-eminently suited to literary and professional men, whose sedentary life needs... | |
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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... 
