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" In observance of this resolution, I take leave ; first, to declare, I never designed a balustrade. Persons of little ^skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well... "
Sir Christopher Wren - Page 284
by Lena Milman - 1908 - 367 pages
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The British Critic: A New Review, Volume 20

William Beloe, Thomas Fanshaw Middleton, William Rowe Lyall, Robert Nares - 1823 - 700 pages
...architecture did expect,, L believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds : they would be liable to be tipped...
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Metropolitan Improvements; Or, London in the Nineteenth Century: Being a ...

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd - 1827 - 696 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters ; for a continued range of balusters cannot be proposed to stand alone against high winds ; they would be liable to be tipped...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and ..., Volume 4

Allan Cunningham - 1831 - 386 pages
...skill in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something that had been used in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...parts, such as pilasters : for a continued range of balusters cannot be supposed to stand alone against high winds — they would be liable to be tipped...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used td in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...architecture did expect, I believe, to see sometliing they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which maybe...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures ; and ladies think nothing well vnthout an edging. I should gladly have complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for reasons following : " A balustrade is supposed a sort of plinth over the upper colonnade, which may...
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London, Volumes 1-2

Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...in architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing well without an edging. I...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — "My opinion therefore is, to...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 874 pages
...architecture did expect, I believe, to see something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladiet think nothing well without an edging, I should gladly...complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — "My opinion therefore is, to...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 pages
...something they had been used to in Gothic structures, and ladies think nothing Mtll without an sdging. I should gladly have complied with the vulgar taste, but I suspended for the following reasons," &c. He concludes with the emphatic declaration — " My opinion therefore is, to...
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