Charles Eliot, landscape architect, a lover of nature and of his kind, who trained himself for a new profession, practised it happily and through it wrought much good (1902)
so of an appalling architectural sarae-iiess— French-roofed, square, brick, stone-tiimmed dwellings,unhomelike and stuck-up. No Greek-portico houses, andas yet no Queen Anne. It is a commonplace and very com-munistic-looking city, but, I suppose, a fair type of manycities in the West. The dull… … CHAPTER X LANDSCAPE STUDY IN EUROPE. GERMANY, HOLLAND,AND HOMEWARD I believe it is no wrong observation, that persons of genius andthose who are most capable of art are always most fond of nature :on the contrary, people of the common level of understanding are prin-cipally delighted with little…
Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926 · Landscape architecture
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![An illustration from The English pilot. [cartographic material] : The fourth book. Describing The West-India navigation, from Hudson's Bay to the River Amazones. Particularly delineating The Sea Coasts, Capes, Headlands, Rivers, Bays, Roads, Havens, Harbours, Streights, Rocks, Sands, Shoals, Banks, Depths of Water, and Anchorage, with all the Islands therein, as Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbadoes, Antigua, Bermudas, Porto Rico, and the rest of the Caribbee and Bahama Islands. Also, A new Description of Newfoundland, New England, New York, East and West New- Jersey, Dellawar Bay, Virginia, Maryland, Carolina. showing, The Courses and Distances from one Place to another; the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea, the Setting of the Tides and Currents, &c. With many other Things necessary to be known in Navigation. (1775)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-englishpilotcart00thor-15-16.webp)
