...gardening was unqueftionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon fays, " a man fhall ever fee, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build rtately, fooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfeaion." WARTON. The tafle...

...gardening was unquellionable. " For the honour of this art," Lord Bacon fays, " a man fhall ever fee, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build ftately, fooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfcftion." WARTON. The tafte...

...argument, and almost in Aristotle's words, with respect to the superiority of gardening to architecture : "A man shall ever see, that when " ages grow to civility...men come to " build stately SOONER than to garden ßnely ; as " if gardening were the greater perfectian." The truth, however, of the fact here asserted...

...kingdom. It is the greatest refieshment to the spirits of man, without which, even palaces are but gross handy works ; and a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegance, they lose the chaste fruition of the simple delights that hide themselves in the country^...

...buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; at if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we яте rapidly arriving...

...but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that " a man shall ever sec that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; aa if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we arc rapidly arriving...

...above description too, well corroborates that admirable remark with which the essay commences; — "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finelv, as if gardening were the greater perfection." Our palaces and cathedrals are exumt proofs of...

...Bacon on this subject: "Further, a man shall see " that when ages advance in civility and politeness, " men come to build stately sooner than to garden " finely, as if gardening was the greater per" fection." Yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior...

...the term, one of the last refinements of civilised life. ' A man shall ever see,' says Lord Bacon, ' that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely.' To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were...

...term, one of the last refinements of civilized life. " A man shall ever see," says Lord I! iron, " that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men...come to build stately sooner than to garden finely." To attempt, therefore, to disguise wholly its artificial character is as great folly as if men were...