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Modern dwellings in town and country adapted to American wants and climate with a treatise on furniture and decoration (1878)

Holly, Henry Hudson, 1834-1892 · New York, Harper & brothers, publishers · leaf 115

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sleeping upon down, is as ifone were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind. Is it not pitiable to see a man growing rich, and beginning to aug-ment the comforts of home, and lavishing money on ostentations uphol-stery, upon the table, upon everything but what the sonl needs ? We know… … Design No. 17. ligious books of his persuasion, and that is all: no range of poets, noessays, ho selections of historians, no travels or biographies, no select fic-tions, no curious legendary lore. But then, the walls have paper on thatcost three dollars a roll, and the floors have carpets that…

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