This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... which the letters therein referred to are written. There is no possibility of extracting a second meaning from the expressions. Clever, practical workmen very often possess the talent of employing the right words in their descriptions: they have but little to tell, and they tell it with precision. Mr. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ... which the letters therein referred to are written. There is no possibility of extracting a second meaning from the expressions. Clever, practical workmen very often possess the talent of employing the right words in their descriptions: they have but little to tell, and they tell it with precision. Mr. Scott will find no reason to congratulate himself on account of the pains he has taken to state what he would have done at Lincoln: this could easily have been borne, but he affects concern for the antique appearance of the walls, and is agitated with grief lest the glare of modern masonry should disturb the sober colouring of time: "even one or two old bemossed stones, in a window or cornice, give value and truthfulness to the work; there is an individual character in the old ashlar, which should not be overlooked." Lincoln does, but Gloucester, since it has been at the tender mercy of Mr. Scott, does not fully acknowledge the correctness of this doctrine, however clumsily expressed. It is true that, at the latter Church, "one or two old bemossed stones" have been put back again; at the former, this kind of operation has never taken place: regard is shewn for the building, not by any thing that is said, but by every thing that is done for it. There is nothing new in the requirements just quoted; the strange circumstance is, that, where we have a right to look for their observance, they are disregarded, and are found in full practice where they have been supposed to be unknown. Moreover, the prepossessions of the antiquary have been convoked to strengthen the force of professional persuasion, and every loophole so effectually barred against retreat from the position taken by the assailant, that he may escape the dilemma as best he can. The...
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