 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 - Pagina 222door Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 434 pagina’s
...displease : the: laults are 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 let use be " preferred before uniformity, efceept where both may be had." Nothing can be more evident) than that the form of a dwelling-house... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1819 - 458 pagina’s
...better is known to the artist only.* * " Houses are built to live in, and hot to look on ; thcrefofre let use be " preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." Nothing can be more evident, than that the form of a dwelling-house ought to be suited to the climate... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pagina’s
...Gasca, 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...may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beanty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pagina’s
...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 ;...cost. He- that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, conimitteth himself to prison : neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pagina’s
...Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. Id. Home» are built to live in, not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Bacon. As we house not country plants to save them, so we may hoiae our own to forward them . II More... | |
 | 1889 - 1100 pagina’s
...conclusion that they are good to look on and not to live in, and that the advice of Lord Bacon, to " let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had," merits special attention in this country. Before venturing to criticise Japanese dwellings, however,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagina’s
...president of Peru; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them, with others. XLV.— OF BUILDING. HOUSKS are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore...cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, comn,itteth himself to prison: neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pagina’s
...of the throne, but spent near a year in France before he made his appearance in England. — Hume. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. — Bacon. Fanaticism obliterates the sense of humanity.— Gibbon. The Spaniards, while thus employed,... | |
 | Forest Hill - 1846 - 920 pagina’s
...mansion, of comparatively modern date, had been constructed according to Lord Bacon's advice — " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ;...therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity." By the way, as we look through those delightful essays, how striking is the contrast between wisdom,... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pagina’s
...JEsop, Grasca, 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 ;...cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat coaimitteth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon it an ill see.t only where the air is unwholsome,... | |
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