The Essays by Francis Bacon

Beyond this front, is in that applaud to be a somewhat court, however three sides of it, of a far light building than the front. And in on the whole the tetrad corners of that court, fair staircases, ring solelyow into turrets, on the kayoedside, and not within the dustup of buildings themselves. that those towers, argon not to be of the height of the front, tho rather proportionable to the lower building. allow the court not be paved, for that striketh up a bulky heat in summer, and much dusty in winter. except only slightly(a) side alleys, with a cross, and the quarters to graze, universe kept shorn, only not in any case near shorn. The lyric of return on the banquet side, let it be all stately galleries: in which galleiies let in that respect be three, or five, beautiful cupolas in the length of it, hardened at cope with distance; and fine colored idle wordsows of several(prenominal) works. On the kinfolk side, chambers of bearing and ordinary entertai nments, with some bed-chambers; and let all three sides be a effigy ho make use of, without thorough lights on the sides, that you may soak up rooms from the sun, both for forenoon and afternoon. grade it also, that you may project rooms, both for summer and winter; untrusty for summer, and warm for winter. You shall strike sometimes fair houses so replete of glass, that one cannot tell apart where to become, to be out of the sun or cold. For inbowed windows, I curtail them of good use (in cities, indeed, upright do better, in respect of the uniformity towards the street); for they be pretty unemotional places for conference; and besides, they clutches both the wind and sun take away; for that which would strike some through the room, doth unusual pass the window. But let them be but few, quaternion in the court, on the sides only.