 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 頁
...greatest refreshment to 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 eleganey, men come to build stately, sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 頁
...refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks ; and a man shall ever see, that, when ages grow to...build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if garden1 Watercourses. ing were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 頁
...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 civility' and elegancy* men coine to build stately, sooner than to garden finely ; as if gardening were the greater perfection.... | |
 | Henry Nicholson Ellacombe - 1884 - 462 頁
...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 elegance, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 頁
...p. 146, l. 16. The Latin has quasi populares. Civility, sb. Civilization, refinement: p. 19, l. 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. 1 86. Clear, vt... | |
 | Morgan George Watkins - 1885 - 296 頁
...fpirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but grofs handyworks ; and a man mall 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 perfection." Thus Lord Bacon... | |
 | Josceline Fitz-Roy Bagot - 1886 - 68 頁
...Bacon on the 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 perfection;' yet Bacon himself may be considered to afford an instance of the inferior... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 頁
...refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy works 7 : and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility...elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely8; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins Willey - 1887 - 450 頁
...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... | |
 | California Historical Society - 1887 - 452 頁
...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... | |
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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... 
