The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 216
ool will have it—a man mustnot only have exquisite taste and a genius tempered by the study ofexisting models and masterpieces;—he must have something moreeven than tiiis—he must be iniUaled, he must be admitted the incor- porate member of a guild, and learn its geometric secrets, or his tasteand… … was to design were laid down for him with a precision and minute-ness quite diflTerent from those general axioms which, in painting andsculpture merely warned and suggested, but did not attempt to guide.The architect must never have approached his working drawing withpencil in band, unless at the…
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