 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 - Pàgina 222per Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pàgines
...feigned. As You LIKE IT, Act iii. Sc. vii. : The truest poetry is the most feigning. 2. ON BUILDINGS : He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon that an ill seat only, where the air is unwholesome, but likewise where it is unequal. MACBETH, Act... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pàgines
...poetical. As You LIKE IT, Act iii. Sc. vii.: The truest poetry is the most feigning. 2. ON BUILDINGS : He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon that an ill seat only, where the air is unwholesome, but likewise where it is unequal. MACBETH, Act... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pàgines
...at. ' Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.' — John iii. ESSAY XLV. OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before1 uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty, only... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pàgines
...As You Like It, act iii. sc. 7 : — The truest poety is the most feigning. Essay on Building : — He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison ; nor do I reckon that an ill seat only, where the air is unwholesome, but likewise where it is unequal.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pàgines
...Prefident of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewife amongft them, with others. XLV. Of Building. \OUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let Ufe be preferred before Uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly Fabricks of Houfes,... | |
 | Valentine Mott Francis - 1859 - 248 pàgines
...in his " Essay on Building," which I have before alluded to, commences it in the following words : " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ;...palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost." The wisdom of his remark cannot be contradicted, and it would be well if his advice had always been... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pàgines
...BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before1 uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the...small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill Beat,' committeth himself to prison — neither do I reckon it an 1ll seat only where the air is unwholsome,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pàgines
...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 ;...goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted1 palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pàgines
...not able to finish. St. ¿fattiitw. BmLDINCr-TTtility of a. Houses are built to live in, more than to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Лаеол. BULL T— always a Coward. A brave man is sometimes a desperado ; a bully is always a coward.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pàgines
...at. ' Marvel not that I said unto thoe, ye must be bora again.' — John iii. ESSAY XLV. OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before i uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty, only to... | |
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