 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864
...the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which building and palai-r s are but gross handy works : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civilityi and elegancy,2 men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening... | |
 | Samuel Hadden Parkes - 1864
...is the greatest nefreshment to the spirit of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works, and a man shall ever see that, when ages grow to civilisation and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening... | |
 | Making of America Project - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1865
...literally by his plan, his thirty acres would become a magnificent baby-house, and confirm his own remark, "that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately rather than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." His four acres of green... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 1865
...by his plan, bis thirty acres would become a magnificent baby-house, and confirm his own remark, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately rather than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. " His four acres of green... | |
 | Olmsted and Vaux (Firm), Frederick Law Olmsted - Architecture - 1866 - 26 pages
...of refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and 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... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - History - 1868 - 343 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works, and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately, Franklin Fiske Heard - 1868 - 641 pages
...is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which building and palaces 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1868 - 388 pages
...Refreshment to the Spirits of Man ; Without which, Buildings and Pallaces 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 then to Garden Finely: As if Gardening were the Greater... | |
 | William Robinson - 1869
...other art whatever. Without the garden, Lord Bacon tells us, " Buildings and pallaces 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pages
...p. 146, 1. 16. The Latin has quasipopulares. Civility, si. Civilization, refinement: p. 19, 1. 17. 'And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancie, men come to build stately, sooner then to garden finely.' Essay xlvi. p. 186. Clear, vt... | |
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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 handiworks; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility... 
