...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 had houses...

...without which buildings and 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 ; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Easay 46. such great trunks and branches...

...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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 in the...

...without which buildings and 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 j;reatef perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small a grain...

...without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks, and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately...finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." There is an inspiration in simply reading a description of his ideal garden, or rather gardens, for...

...when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build 10 Retiring-room. " Secret outlets. HCin 8 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 in the...

...palaces are but gross handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." — Francis Bacon. of the McKinley Vocational School and the Board of Education of the City of Buffalo,...

...the last refinements of civilised life. ' A man shall ever see,' says Lord Bacon, ' that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely.' To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were...

...without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately,...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...

...without which buildmgs and 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,...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.' Long after this great man wrote, an English garden was an inclosure, where all view of the surrounding...