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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 201

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of wrought andtwisted ironwork. In the latter case the addition of a plain frameis often necessary, but the distinction between it and the rest of thedesign is not often insisted on. These examples of the use of a frame do not by any meansexhaust the subject of its functions. From its association… … Other meanings as well. We speak, for instance, of the frameworkof a house, the bodily frame, and even of a frame of mind. Iuse it here in the sense of a pattern enclosing a clearly defined FRAMES. 195

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