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Suggestions for beautifying home, village and roadway (1900)

Manning, Warren Henry, 1860- [from old catalog] · [Boston · leaf 11

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[7] 20. Do not forget the common roadside growth, and thebeauty that lies therein. If it is disfigured by such unauthor-ized signs as are represented here, make it your mission todestroy them, for an offense to the sight in such a place is asmuch of a public nuisance as an offense to the ear or… … Never sweep away a bit of wild growth in your home, schoolor public grounds without studying it for at least a year, inorder that you may learn to appreciate its beauty at all seasons.An appreciation of the beauty of common things leads to thehighest in art. [8] 21. Kven such unattractive city…

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