 HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost....  Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Strona 222autor: Francis Bacon - 1812 - Liczba stron: 295Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Francis Bacon - 1891 - Liczba stron: 466
...Gasca president of Peru; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. XLV. —OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on, therefore,...cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 3 committeth himself to prison; neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
 | 1891 - Liczba stron: 556
...ex«•use at double the estimate. Kelt. JTILITY OF A. Houses are built to 11 vein more than to ook on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be lad. Bacon. BULLY. A COWARD. A brave man is sometimes a desperado ; a bully is always а со ward.... | |
 | 1892 - Liczba stron: 812
...heiresses, and sending the young people forth into the world ? — Prof. G. Wilson. Ver. 8. House. Houses are built to live in and not to look on ; therefore...preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. — Bacon. Ver. 9, 10. Seeds. Humanity Is not a field where tares and thorns alone Are left to spring... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - Liczba stron: 342
...Gasca president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. XLV.— OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 2 committeth himself to prison : neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
 | Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer - 1893 - Liczba stron: 430
...it down nearly three hundred years ago, but neither the architect nor his public has learned it yet: "He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison." He may find pleasure within his 372 four walls ; but if he is a man of taste, he is shut off from pleasure... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - Liczba stron: 604
...for it to resemble an epic or dramatic poem. — Shenstone. Houses arc built to live in, more than to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity except where both may bo had. — Bacon. An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with... | |
 | 1896 - Liczba stron: 1224
...make gold of that. e. Timon of Athens. ActV. Sc. 1. L. 117. Architecture. Houses are built to live in, d. BACON — Essays. Of Building, There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story... | |
 | 1899 - Liczba stron: 676
...MAN'S house may be likened unto a mirror— reflecting the character of the indweller. Bacon says, " Houses are built to live in and not to look on : Therefore,...before uniformity, except where both may be had." In this age of hurry-scurry — where even' man seems to be striving, as in a race, with the devil... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1899 - Liczba stron: 490
...before Uniformitie ; Except where both may be had. Leave the Goodly Fabrickes of Houses, for Beautie only, to the Enchanted Pal/aces of the Poets: Who build them with small Cost. Hee that builds a faire House, upon an ill Seat, committeth Himselfe to Prison. Neither doe I reckon... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - Liczba stron: 462
...Gasca President of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them ; with others. XLV OF BUILDING HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...build them with small cost. He that builds a fair T1buse upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where... | |
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