| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...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 - Criticism - 1772 - 398 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 ; therefore...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 - Criticism - 1816 - 452 pages
...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 ; therefore..." 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 - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...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 - Electronic books - 1818 - 684 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 pages
...president of Peru; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. - XLVI. OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except whefe both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces... | |
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