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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 208

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ey are founded on experience andcommon sense. Through every chance and change his know-ledge, though applied to new and varying problems and to therapid changes in shipbuilding, never lets go of the methods andways that have been proved fit by centuries of fighting with windand wave and tide and… … By the Sea 105 A holiday on the sea gives respite from the thoughts thatoccupy other days. Still no architect can fail to notice that thesteps taken by the art of shipbuilding are very like those bywhich the art of architecture progresses. The conventions bywhich both express themselves are founded…

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