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
| James Rees - 1876 - 200 pages
...poetical. It is the more likely to be feigned." " The truest poetry is the most feigning." Shakespeare. " 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."... | |
| James Comper Gray - 1876 - 424 pages
...the expense at double the estimate." — Kelt. "Houses are built to live in, more than to look OQ ; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." — Bacon. TO. 4, 5. J. Seed, ii. 69 ; R. South, gale, ii. 93. Proverb 8. — " What may be done at... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 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,8 committeth himself to prison ; neither do I reckon it an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...Solyman, JEsop, Gasca, president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them ; with others. XLV HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...them with small cost. He that builds a fair house 5 upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison. Neither do 1 reckon it an ill seat only where the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...compensate for their disadvantage by — (a.) Malice. (b. ) Or superior virtue. XLV.— OF BUILDING. (1625.) HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only,1 to the enchanted Palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 228 pages
...for their disadvantage by — (a.) Malice. (li. ) Or superior virtue. XLV.— OF BUILDING. (1625.) HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only,1 to the enchanted Palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye nms! be born again.' — John iii. .-.Si . : ESSAY XLV. OF BUILDING HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ;...small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill Beat,' committeth himself to prison — neither do I reckon it au ill seat only where the air is unwholsome,... | |
| John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pages
...convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth. — Aristotle. CCXIV. F BUILDING. — Houses are built to live in, and not to look on ;...the poets, who build them with small cost. He that buildeth a fair house upon an ill seat only where the air is unwholesome, but likewise where the air... | |
| George Wilson - 1880 - 330 pages
..." Who would not give a trifle to prevent What he would give a thousand worlds to cure ? " YOUNG. " Houses are built to live In, and not to look on ;...before uniformity, except where both may be had."— LORD BACOS. _J PEEFACE. WHEN I was requested by the Publishers to write a popular work on Health and... | |
| Goold Brown - 1851 - 1124 pages
...express the relation between the verb or participle and a nominative or objective going before. Examples: "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on;...preferred before uniformity, except where both may bo had." — Ld. Somes. " These are not mysteries for ordinary readers to be let into." — ADDISON... | |
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