 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 sivua
...are but gross handy-works, and a man sliall 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." — Lord Bacon, Essay 46. such great trunks and branches from so small... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 sivua
...are but gross handyworks ; 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. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1856 - 368 sivua
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sivua
...are but gross handyworks : and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility' and elegancy,3 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sivua
...are but gross handyworks : 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... | |
 | George Lunt - 1857 - 272 sivua
...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." There can be, indeed, no question whatever that Horticulture, as a scientific... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1858 - 420 sivua
...on this subject. " Further, a man " shall see that when ages advance in civility and po" liteness, men come to build stately sooner than to " garden finely, as if gardening was the greater per" Section." Yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior taste which... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - 1879 - 672 sivua
...should be employed. Lord Bacon says: "A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility aud elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Any pereon of taste ni i \ li ml keen delight in the beautiful effects... | |
 | 1858 - 458 sivua
...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, " hence a love of gardening, and a taste for gardening, are two distinct... | |
 | Samuel Hadden Parkes - 1864 - 120 sivua
...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 were the greater perfection." His lordship then proceeds to give an outline of what a London garden... | |
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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... 
