 | Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...the estate of many a man. THOMAS FULLER, "1lohj and Profane States," 1608-1691. OF BUILDING. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore...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 - English essays - 1856 - 406 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,...let use be preferred before uniformity, except where botli may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...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... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...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 - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 ; therefore...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... | |
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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.... 
