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The rudiments of architecture and building, for the use of architects, builders, draughtsmen, machinists, engineers, and mechanics (1872)

Bullock, John · Philadelphia, H.C. Baird & Co. · leaf 154

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rticular species or class of ob-jects which he is representing. He has to discover not whatvarieties of form most conduce to a particular expression ;but what varieties of human form are most associated there-with, because most frequently accompanied by the quality oremotion he would depict. His… … lj t« jl i, >i;l ^ il f OP ARCHITECTURE. 145 through universal nature, not only through all existing butall possible forms, this choice is confined to the limits towhich jSature has confined herself in a single species; sothat, compared to the architect, he resembles a musiciancomposing for an…

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