| Goold Brown - English language - 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... | |
| Medicine - 1880 - 396 pages
...enlightenment, and one of the most efficient means to that end. Lord Bacon says : " Homes are made to live in, not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." The work before us looks to instructing the people in the secret of securing both usefulness and attractiveness.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 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 I reckon it an ill seat only where the... | |
| Education - 1882 - 698 pages
...success with which they are enforcing upon architects the doctrine that (in the language of Bacon) " houses are built to live in and not to look on ; therefore...before uniformity, except where both may be had." Not less should we forget what has been done for the regulation of abattoirs and of systems of water... | |
| Reginald Craufuird Sterndale - Sanitation - 1881 - 312 pages
...dark color. The smell is pleasant and refreshing. - . 4 CHAPTER XIX. " Houses are built to live in, not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." — Lord BaGon. In Lower Bengal all houses, however well raised from the ground, are more or less damp... | |
| Richard Beckett - Building trades - 1881 - 210 pages
...hill behind it as a shelter against northern storms." " Houses should be built to live in more than to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had." " The difference of cost between good and bad building is very small ; the difference in their appearance... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...Solyman, /Ksop, Gasca, president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst >hem ; 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 I reckon it an ill seat only where the... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1882 - 214 pages
...JEsop, 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...uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabries of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small... | |
| Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1882 - 926 pages
...; make gold of that. e. Timón of Athens. Act V. So. 1. AKCHITECTUKE. Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both can be had. f. BACON - Essays. Of Building. The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by... | |
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