ing all with a garniture whose design is not more prose, the other the poetry of the art of building.” chastely beautiful than finely wrought. In the presence of the works of Phidias, of Michael Angelo, or of Manual Training as Applied to the Building Arts.'5 Meissonier, we are awed into… … at Maulbronn pyramids of Egypt, sentiment and humanity in a locomotive or a steamship, than there is in the temples of the statues of Praxiteles, the paintings of Raphael, or the works of Shakes¬ Greece and Rome, and the cathedrals of medieval Europe. Inspired by peare. the imposing retrospect…
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