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History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)

Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 338

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andrespectability are connected with a certain style ofbuilding, which has been evolved by the wants, man-ners, and customs of the people. Any great deviationsfrom a style that has been thus fixed, cannot be per-fectly agreeable. We must improve upon this style,so that domestic architecture may in… … 3*s -r _ grow inveterate as long as its views are confined to theplace of its birth. The love of country will remainwith undiminished strength in the cultivated mind;but the national modes of thinking will vanish fromthe disciplined intellect. Now as it is only by thesemannerisms of thought that…

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