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Title: Little Jack of all trades, with suitable representations
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Darton, William, 1755-1819 Darton & Harvey (London, England)
Subjects: Occupations Industrial arts
Publisher: London : Printed for Darton, Harvey, and Darton, no. 55, Gracechurch-Street
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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s, b and 14 JACK OF ALL TRADES. and many other essential household arti-cles, is certainly very great; and it is nowarrived at a higher degree of excellencethan it ever was before. Whether veneer-ed with the most precious woods, inlaidwith ivory, &c. painted, gilded, or var-nished, no cost or labour is spared torender every article of furniture exqui-sitely beautiful; but in the decoration ofour houses, as in that of our persons, wemay be led too far, and in coveting splen-dour, overlook utility. The workman-ship displayed in cabinets, caddies, chairs,and fashionable tables, for regularity,taste, and polish, is incomparable, andclaims admiration ; but, though fascinatedby outward ornament, let us not be blindto useful simplicity. Inlaid satin-wood may hold the superi-ority for a time; but the plainer, morelasting and serviceable materials, of solidoak, noble mahogany, durable walnut, andhumble deal, will ever be preferred, bythose who esteem intrinsic merit aboveexterior show. THE
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lyvnted/ajrt<m,Harvey aruZDar-ton, ^ta^echurch Siree^Za-ndon^ecTHfS^, THE MASON. At bright religions dawn, our God was praisM On hills, in groves, ere churches yet were raisd* On holy Sion, by the Lords command, First rose the Temple from the Masons hand I A sacred art is ours* to science dear, Where orders five in symmetry appear. Genius and rule unite, and noblest style, In solemn Pauls, and Greenwich, splendid pile J In hospitals, where charity abides, Or mansions grand, true taste the Mason guides* if Mason*? 16 JACK OF ALL TRADES. Masonry is the art of building in stone,a great supply of which is brought fromthe quarries in the islands of Portlandand Purbeck, in Dorsetshire. In ancient times, architecture appears tohave arrived at a much higher degree ofperfection, than in these days. The Tow-er of Babel, the Walls of Babylon andthose of Nineveh, the Temple of Jerusa-lem, the aqueducts and splendid edificesof Rome, far exceed modern building;but though the ancients

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