| James Elmes - 1827 - 352 էջ
...Sir William Petty computes its population to have doubled itself every forty years, from the y tar 1600 ; consequently, in 1680 it must have contained...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary... | |
| 1828 - 512 էջ
...reformation of the architecture of London, which is also much indebted to the genius and industry of Iñigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary... | |
| 1828 - 198 էջ
...Inigo Jones, notwithstanding his staunch papism, to build for him his splendid palace of Whitehall j whose banqueting house and splendid ceiling, by Rubens,...this period, which INIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and him> self had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary view of the new palace now building... | |
| 1833 - 536 էջ
...reformation of the architecture of London, which is also much indebted to the genius and industry of Iñigo Jones, the king's chief architect. Of the principal...the best architectural style of this period, which IÑIGO JONES, SIR HENRY WOTTON and himself had so much improved. As we purpose taking a preliminary... | |
| 1847 - 614 էջ
...essential. Practically, therefore, they seem to evince their concurrence in the opinion of Lord Verulam, that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." The log cabin, at first intended as a castle of security against savages and wild beasts, as well as... | |
| 1870 - 708 էջ
...established, and there is no maxim of Bacon less applicable to our condition than that in which tfe claims that " houses are built to live in, and not to look on." On the contrary, our houses are built to look at, and not to live in. They are not our property, but... | |
| Charles Herbert Moore - 1905 - 334 էջ
...and generally good proportions. It embodies the essentially English idea, as expressed by Lord Bacon, that, " Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." J And while this remark may seem to ignore architecture as such, ie the fine art of beautiful building,... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith, Sir Henry Wotton - 1907 - 550 էջ
...much more serious conception of the importance and principles of architecture. Bacon begins by saying that' Houses are built to live in, and not to look on', and he makes comfort rather than uniformity the main object of the builder. His imaginary house is... | |
| ALBERT G. ROBINSON - 1919 - 184 էջ
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their... | |
| Albert Gardner Robinson - 1919 - 168 էջ
...same or similar designs on houses of different ages. In his Essay on Building, Lord Bacon declared that "Houses are built to live in, and not to look on." This view appears to have been endorsed, generally, by the Americans of the seventeenth century. Their... | |
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