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Title: Essays and Belles Lettres
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Rhys, Ernest 1859-1946 (editor)
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Publisher: New York: E P Dutton & Co
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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and skill in the 1 One of the most beautiful instances I know of this kind of windowis in the ancient house of the Maxwells, on the estate of Sir John Max-well of Police. I had not seen it when I gave this lecture, or I shouldhave preferred it, as an example, to that of Rouen, with reference tomodern possibilities of imitation. Architecture and Painting 107 disposition of the pebbles of your brooches and otherornaments ofdress ; and Ihave not the leastdoubt that thegenius of yourcountry would,if directed tothis particularstyle of architec-ture, produceworks as beauti-ful as they wouldbe thoroughlynational. TheGothic of Flor-ence, which owesat least the halfof its beauty tothe art of in-laying, wouldfurnish you withexquisite ex-amples; itssculpture is in-deed the mostperfect whichwas ever pro-duced by theGothic schools ;but, besides thisrich sculpture,all its flat sur-faces are inlaidwith colouredstones, muchbeing done witha green serpen-tine, which formsthe greater partof the coast of
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Fig. 19. Genoa. You have, I believe, large beds of this rock in 108 Architecture and Painting Scotland, and other stones besides, peculiarly Scottish,calculated to form as noble a school of colour as everexisted.1 And, now, I have but two things more to say to you inconclusion. Most of the lecturers whom you allow to address you, laybefore you views of the sciences they profess, which areeither generally received, or incontrovertible. I come beforeyou at a disadvantage ; for I cannot conscientiously tell youanything about architecture but what is at variance with allcommonly received views upon the subject. I come beforeyou, professedly to speak of things forgotten or things dis-puted ; and I lay before you, not accepted principles, butquestions at issue. Of those questions you are to be thejudges, and to you I appeal. You must not, when youleave this room, if you feel doubtful of the truth of what Ihave said, refer yourselves to some architect of establishedreputation, and ask him wh

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