 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 ページ
...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. Essay on Gardens. — LORD BACON. GARMENTS. Man's best Give me my scallop... | |
 | 1867 - 522 ページ
...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... | |
 | Olmsted and Vaux (Firm), Frederick Law Olmsted - 1866 - 42 ページ
...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." In the formation of country residences of the smallest pretensions far... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 ページ
...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." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 ページ
...are but gross handiwork : 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 ['2] perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 526 ページ
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 ページ
...are but gross handy works : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility1 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 ページ
...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 wer» the greater perfection." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small... | |
 | Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1904 - 530 ページ
...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. " A writer in the Spectator aptly remarks: ' ' I look upon the pleasures... | |
 | William Robinson - 1869 - 786 ページ
...are but grosse handy works : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancie, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely : as if gardening were the greater perfection.'" As yet we are far from perfection as builders, and the garden holds... | |
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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... 
