...without which building and palaces are bat grw» 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." So wrote Francis Lord Bacon near 300 years ago, and this pleasure still exists in the human heart as...

...palace* are but gross handiworks : and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to civility anti elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfectioE. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months...

...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: äs if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it in the royal ordering of gardens, there...

...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...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...

...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...

...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 sooner than 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 of natural...

...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 sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." AValler, at his residence at Beaconsficld, is said to have presented more than usual evidences of natural...

...on this subject : " Further, a man shall see " that when ages advance in civility and politeness, " 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...

...dreamed o: by any one else in his time in the passage, " When ages do grow to civility and ele gance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening wcri the greater perfection." Waller, at his residence at Beaconsfield, is said to have pre sentcd...

...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...