 | Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin - 1902
...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 sooner than to garden finely." As an art of luxury it fared poorly in the Dark and Middle Ages ; but when the Renaissance revived the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 29 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... | |
 | Helen Rose Anne Milman Crofton - 1903 - 368 pages
...Refreshment to the Spirits of Man ; Without which, Bui/dings and Pa/laces 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... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 423 pages
...Refreshment to the Spirits of Man ; Without which, Buildings and fallaces are but Grosse Handy-works: And a Man shall ever see, that when Ages grow to Civility and Elegancie, Men come to Build Stalely, sooner then to Garden Finely : As if Gardening were the Greater... | |
 | Charles Montgomery Skinner - Gardening - 1904 - 250 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... | |
 | Gustav Stickley, United Crafts - Social Science - 1905
..."Without it," says Bacon, writing in Elizabeth's time, "buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." PROFESSOR ADF HAMLIN IN "EUROPEAN AND JAPANESE GARDENS." BER X HE Craftsman House, Number X., as may... | |
 | Science - 1907
...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; ivithout 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 tuild stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greatest perfection." — Lord... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1908 - 293 pages
...greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; l without , which buildings and palaces are but gross handy- / works: and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility 2 and elegancy,3 men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 293 pages
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; 1 without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility 2 and elegancy,3 men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 332 pages
...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 and elegancy, men come1 to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I... | |
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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... 
