Garden Cities in Theory and Practice: Being an Amplification of a Paper of The Potentialities of Applied Science in a Garden City, 1. cilt

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Bemrose and sons, Limited, 1905 - 1404 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 27 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feast tho' small, He sees his little lot, the lot of all; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed ; No costly lord the sumptuous banquet deal To make him loathe his vegetable meal.
Sayfa 32 - To lose good days that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow ; To fret their souls with crosses and with cares; To eat their hearts with comfortless despairs : Unhappy wights ! born to disastrous end, That do their lives in tedious tendance spend.'*
Sayfa 61 - Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. . . . Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation . . . Built like a temple.
Sayfa 27 - Calm and bred in ignorance and toil, Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil; Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air and carols as he goes.
Sayfa 45 - does not permit property in land, for if one portion of the earth's surface may justly become the possession of an individual, and may be held by him for his sole use and benefit, as a thing to which he has an exclusive right, then
Sayfa 84 - by seating all the parochial churches conspicuous and insular ; by forming the most public places into large piazzas, the centres of eight ways ; by uniting the halls of the twelve chief companies into one regular square annexed to Guildhall; and by making a commodious Quay on the whole bank of the river, from Blackfriars to the Tower.
Sayfa 404 - The beginning of civilization is the discovery of some useful arts by which men acquire property, comforts, or luxuries. The necessity or desire of preserving them leads to laws and social institutions. ... In reality the origin, as well as the progress and improvement, of civil society is founded on mechanical and chemical inventions.'—SIR
Sayfa 119 - The wise and active conquer difficulties By daring to attempt them; sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at the sight of toil and danger, And make the impossibility they fear.
Sayfa 92 - Augustus at Rome was for building renown'd, And of marble he left what of brick he had found. But is not our Nash, too, a very great master ? He finds us all brick, and he leaves us all plaster.
Sayfa 404 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

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