...ready a people under suitable direction. The stranger who comes among us is apt to bold the art of the nation cheap ; but, as all things are comparative,...to invention ; for no architecture, and especially that of a domestic character, can ever be above serious reproach, until climate, the uses of the edifice,...

...a people under a suitable direction. The stranger who comes among us is apt to hold the art of tho nation cheap, but as all things are comparative, let...years since, and look at it to-day. The fault just ~Tnow is perhaps to consult the books too rigidly, and to trust too little to invention ; for no arehitecture,...

...unclassical objects chimneys, is too much even for a high taste; one might as well live in a fever. . . . The fault just now is perhaps to consult the books...ever be above serious reproach, until climate, the use of the edifice, and the situation, are respected as leading considerations. . . . While nothing...

...classical taste of our architects is anything but rigid"; his companion dissents, however, observing, "The fault just now is perhaps to consult the books...too rigidly, and to trust too little to invention." And Tucker wrote of that "technical pride, which cherishes and perpetuates much of the pedantry of...

...classical taste of our architects is anything but rigid"; his companion dissents, however, observing, "The fault just now is perhaps to consult the books...too rigidly, and to trust too little to invention." And Tucker wrote of that "technical pride, which cherishes and perpetuates much of the pedantry of...