 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 - Side 222af Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 sider
...Prefident of Pern, and Socrates may go like wife amongft them, with others. XLV. Of Building. HOVSES 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 Hmfes,... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1772 - 398 sider
...buildings intended to pleafe jhe eye, they are all equally effential. By many writers it * " Houfes are built to live in, and not to look on " therefore let ufe be preferred before uniformity, ex" cept where both may be had." Lo. Peru/am, e,\fay 4.5. it is... | |
 | Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 sider
...flourish upon your various lections. IBID. D BUILDINGS. HOUSES were built to live in, and not to look 011; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity,...the poets, who build them with small cost. He that buildeth a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do I: reckon it an ill... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 sider
..../Esop, Gasca, president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look', on...palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. Me, that builds a fair > house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1816 - 452 sider
...displease : the faults arc obvious; and the difficulty of doing better is known to the artist only.* * " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ;..." use be preferred before uniformity, except where boih may be had." f Nothing can be more evident, than that the form of a dwelling-house ought to be... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 sider
...jEsop, Gasca President of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. Of .H OUSES are built to live in, and not to look on : therefore...preferred before uniformity, except where both may be hud. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who... | |
 | Sir John Sinclair - 1818 - 684 sider
...107. • Varro, de RR lib. 1, cap. 12. J Columella, lib. 1, c. 5. Lord Bacon, in his Essays, says, " he that " builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth...himself to prison ; neither " do I reckon it an ill scat where the air ii unwholesome, but likewise " where it is unequal; as you nhall see many fine seats... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 sider
...Gasca President of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. <Df tiuilftf ng. -HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on : therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, excqpt where both may be had. Leave the OF BUILDING. J69 goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 sider
...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 ;...the goodly fabrics of houses for beauty only, to the inehanted palaces of the poets : who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 sider
...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 let use be preferred before uniformity, ex- . cept where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses for beauty only, to the inchanted... | |
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