The American builder's companion : or, A system of architecture, particularly adapted to the present style of building ; illustrated with seventy copperplate engravings (1827)
Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845 · Boston : R.P.&C. Williams · leaf 147
thecornice. Urns admit of a great variety of forms, and when well executed will be veryornamental in their proper places, but they ought not to be used in everysituation. The ancients used them to deposit the ashes and bones of the dead,and for sacred uses only ; and while the mind is impressed… … Vii(,hh*,ati Xc £n*LiiistA^ ii..i.-:i4
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