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 - Page 222by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...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,...small 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...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,...small 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 468 pages
...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,...small 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,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...Gasca, 4 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...beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who built them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 5 committeth himself to prison;... | |
| Francis Bacon - Essays - 1884 - 722 pages
...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 to the enchauted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an... | |
| George Wilson - Diseases - 1885 - 342 pages
...would not give a trifle to prevent What he would give a thousand worlds to cure?" YOUNG. " Houses arc built to live In, and not to look on ; therefore let...before uniformity, except where both may be had." — LORD BACON. j EDITOR'S PREFACE. THE admirable manner in which Prof. Wilson has performed his task... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1885 - 234 pages
...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, except whore both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces... | |
| James Wolfendale - 1887 - 456 pages
...and 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... | |
| 1888 - 634 pages
...people, and of heat-hating Anglo-Indians. BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS. BACON, in his essays, has written, " He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat committeth himself to prison." If you are an observer of nature, a hundred little incidents, particularly in relation to bird life,... | |
| Nathaniel Clark Fowler - Advertising - 1889 - 168 pages
...hath a house to put his head in, has a good head piece. — King Lear. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. — Bacon. 1 would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to... | |
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