 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
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 sider
...income in hand before you lay a brick ; and always calculate the expense at double the estimate. KETT. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. BACON. Essays. IMITATION. FOR as water ascends no higher than the first spring * so knowledge derived... | |
 | Arthur Ashpitel - 1867 - 442 sider
...convenience. The best possible dictum on the subject is that of the great Lord Bacon, who says : " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ;...before uniformity, except where both may be had." Another source of pleasure to the eye is the judicious in- Colour, traduction of colour. In all ages... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 sider
...amongst them, with others, . ESSAY XLIX. BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; [1] therefore let use be preferred before uniformity,...except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics [2] of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 sider
...Mantel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again.' — John iii. ESSAY XLV. OF BUILDING. TTQUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore,...cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat,' cominitteth himself to prison — neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholsome,... | |
 | Simpkin Marshall & Co. - 1868 - 620 sider
...keenness of observation which distinguished the great inductive philosopher, remarks, " that he who builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison ; neither do 1 reckon it an ill seat only unwholesome, but likewise unequal, as you shall see upon a knap of ground,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 sider
...both may be had. Leave the Goodly Fabrickes of Houses, for Beautie only, to the Enchanted Pallaces of the Poets: Who build them with small Cost. He* that builds a faire House, upon an ill Seat, .committed! Himselfe to Prison. Neither doe I .reckon it an ill Seat,... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 254 sider
...a house, Bacon's advice thereon should be borne in mind : " Houses are built to live in, more than to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." Some of the principal essentials to be considered in the building of a house are: (1.) Aspect; (2.)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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 ;...small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat1 committetl! himself to prison. Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 sider
...at. ' Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye mnst be born again.'—John iii. XLV. OF BUILDING. rrOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore, -*--*- let use be preferred before 1 uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty, only to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 sider
...Solyman, ^Esop, Gasca, president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them ; with others. XLV HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...them with small cost. He that builds a fair house 5 upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the... | |
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