The seven lamps of architecture : lectures on architecture and painting : the study of architecture (1900)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Dana Estes & Co · leaf 324
rown into a form whichwould give perpetual pleasure, not to its possessor only, butto thousands besides, and neither tempt the unprincipled, norinfiame the envious, nor mortify the poor ; while, supposingthat your own dignity was dear to you, this, you may relyupon it, would be more impressed upon… … AND PAINTING. 265 than our ancestors, that we cannot now, in all the power ofBritain, afford to do what was done by every small republic,by every independent city, in the middle ages, throughoutFrance, Italy, and Germany ? I am not aware of a vestige ofdomestic architecture, belonging to the great…
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