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The science of taste: being a treatise on its principles (1879)

G. L · London, E. Stanford · leaf 170

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CIENCE OF TASTE. _ mally small ; nevertheless, half of these are of cast-iron. Thomas has a railing round his establishment in Bond Street of the fo] lowing description, and not three feet from the ground (Fig. 61). What is this — especially in winter — but a source of possible danger ? Nor is… … THOMAS S BAILS. practical wisdom and the dictates of Taste identical ; so that those who look upon Utility as one thing and Beauty as another are in error. Take the character of furniture, more particularly of bed -room furniture. The common method is to leave square edges and angular corners ; and…

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