American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture (1904)
Dow, Joy Wheeler · New York, W. T. Comstock · leaf 280
coined wordshabitually in preference to using those given in thedictionary, or who invented a syntax ot his own? But,of course, nobody in his right mind would do this.The object of literature is simply to adapt the wordsand sentences to express our thoughts original so faras we know. In… … Adaptation manifest plagiarism—plagiarism mostly of these archi-tects more successful contemporaries in America. Butthe varying requirements of individual cases compeleven those architects to adapt or else invent to meetcontingencies where no precedent is available, so inpractice it has come to be…
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