...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...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Many of our common flowers and even fruit-trees were first introduced in the monastic ages, the good...

...and buildings are but gross handyworks. A man " shall ever see that when ages grow to civility arid elegancy, men come to " build stately, sooner than...garden finely ; as if gardening were the " greater perfection."—LORD BACON. " Mira qusedam in colendis floribus suavitas, et delectatio."—CICERO....

...lately met with the passages I meant, I cannot fill up my paper better than with some of them. " A man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, soon then to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it that in the Royal...

...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...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Bacon has followed up this sentiment in his two Essays on Buildings, and on Gardens, with many pleasing...

...ROADS.— Lord Bacon regarded successful gardening as the last touch of civilization— " when nations grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely" — but we slightly differ from him — good roads, it strikes us, are about the ultimatum. The rich,...

...refreshment to the spirits of man, without which building and palaces are bat grw» handy works : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and...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...

...purest of human pleasures, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks ; and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and...finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Which is perhaps true, as far as it goes; but gardens want that durability which gives to buildings...

...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...

...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 civility and elegancy, men come to build stately, sooner thnn to ganlen 6nely: äs if gardening were the greater perfeetion.'' Wie tritt, hier sogleich die...

...refreshment of the spirits of man ; without which, buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and...year : in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season. For December and January, and the latter part of November, you must take such things...