 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 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...small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill Beat,' committeth himself to prison — neither do I reckon it an 1ll seat only where the air is unwholsome,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1861 - 408 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,...goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted1 palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...not able to finish. St. ¿fattiitw. BmLDINCr-TTtility of a. Houses are built to live in, more than to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Лаеол. BULL T— always a Coward. A brave man is sometimes a desperado ; a bully is always a coward.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...Marvel not that I said unto thoe, ye must be bora again.' — John iii. ESSAY XLV. OF BUILDING. HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore, let use be preferred before i uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty, only to... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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 ; therefore...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 - Architecture - 1867 - 442 pages
...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 ; therefore...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 pages
...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 - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
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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.... 
