Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 174
ng fleet went to sea in monotonousregularity, we should believe the sea had lost the fascination of itscharm and fearfulness, and that the sailors life was as adventurelessas a mill-hands. And consequently we should aim at making oursemds rather contradict than obey a formal arrangement,… … Lie XXXV. Informal Semes. i68 ARBOR VIT^. have always been called semds, and I should be unwilling to changethe nomenclature or deny their effectiveness. There would be noadvantage gained by disturbing the regularity of a semd of hearts,crowns, thistle- or poppy-heads, for example, because these…
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