London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 608
• The wooden or stone water trough (jig. 251.), and the cooler,or water tub (jig. 252.), are purely for useful purposes, and,therefore, could not easily admit of beauty of form; although,even here, a medium might be found between clumsiness andelegance. Form and Beauty. 593 … When we see the size of the space for the liquid in a vesselformed of one mass of material, as in Jig. 251., limited merelyaccording to necessity, the size of the space causes no particu-larly disagreeable impression ; but when the. space, as mjig. 252.,appears enclosed in a frame, or case,…
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