Dresser, Christopher · London ; New York : Cassell Petter & Galpin · leaf 159
g us to exercise force wherewith to break large piecesof coal, the folly of terminating this knob with a point is obvious. A poker is,essentially, an object of utility; it should therefore be useful. It is ridiculous to talk T 146 PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN. of a jwkev as an ornameut; yet we find it… … Fig. 166. Fig. 165 people will not do for show and fashion, but to the thinking- mind such littleness asthat which induces women to kco]> a poker as an ornament must be distressing ; anduntil persons who desire to be regarded as educated learn to discriminate between anornament and an article of…
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