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Six essays (1891)

Emmett, John T · London : Unwin Bros. · leaf 137

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y had to look on architecture as a business.’ Furthermore, with friendly candour, Mr. Fergusson declares that architecture is now ‘ handed over too exclusively to pro- fessional men, who live by it, and generally succeed more from their business habits than from their artistic powers.’ The… … cathedral there. His sketch- book has been found and pub- Sifarx# lished, and his sketches are * This is a square church which was quite different from those of designed for the Cistercian Order .* modern architects. The lines, made probably with the black stone that masons use to mark their work,…

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