| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...frequently bowed : thus Bacon remarks, in the Essay before referred to, that ' you shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or <x>ld.' In wooden houses ; and particularly town . houses, the upper stories generally projected beyond... | |
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...rooms both for summer and winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For imbowed windows, I hold them of good use (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For embowed windows, I hold them of good use; (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1820 - 350 pages
...is the affectation of large and lofty windows ; where, says Bacon, " you shall have sometimes faire houses, so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become, to be, put of the sun, &c*." * Essays, xii. After what has been here incidentally said en this subject, it... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...have rooms both for summer and winter; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For embowed windows, I hold them of good use ; (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of... | |
| John Nichols - England - 1823 - 680 pages
...fashionable in this reign, that Lord Bacon, in his 45th Essay, complains, " you shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the sun, or cold." * This, I am aware, is a doctrine that has of late been combated by some French philosopher.-, who... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...rooms both for summer and winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For inbowed windows, I hold them of good use ; (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...rooms both for summer and winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have somelimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For inbowed windows, I hold them of good use ; (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...rooms both for summer and winter ; shady for summer, and warm for winter. You shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the sun or cold. For inhowed windows, I hold them of good use; (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of... | |
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