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The grammar of ornament (1868)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875, Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893, Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877, Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher · London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly · leaf 174

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blic taste, and graduaUy lowering the tone of the eye for form of thisgeneration. If children were born and bred to the sound of hurdy-gurdies grinding out of tune, their ears would no doubtsuffer deterioration, and they would lose their sensibility to the harmonious in sound. This, then, is what…

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