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 377
beautiful English villa, in the Eliza-bethan style. It has not the awkward, outre charac-ter of many of those buildings styled Elizabethan,which are blotting the fair face of our country,—thosedark-brown deformities, with as many high, pointedgables as can be contrived by the skill of the… … CHAPTER XXV I. A RANDOM CHAPTER, ON WALLS, CHTMNEyS,WINDOWS, ETC. To build a house upon the sand, is consideredthe extreme of folly; every wise man builds upon afirm foundation. If it is not upon a rock, it must bemade firm by artificiaL.means, such as driving timberinto the loose soil or mud. Thus…
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