Architectural Record, 44 tomasRecord and Guide, 1918 |
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ADAM PERIOD allotment gardens American archi Architectural Record army arrangement artistic barracks beauty BED ROOM Bohnard & Parsson brick building camp CASS GILBERT ceiling CHICAGO chimneypieces CLOS Colonial color construction cost court decoration detail dining room door effect ELEVATION England entrance exterior façade feet fireplace FRANCIS L front GARDEN GLEN COVE Grinling Gibbons HALL HAMPSTEAD GARDEN SUBURB Hampton Court Palace HARTSDALE HENRY HERING HOUSE OF FRANCIS illustrated industrial interest interior John Russell Pope kitchen L. I. WALKER labor Landscape Architects light LIVING ROOM MASS material ment MUSEUM OHIO Olmsted Brothers ornament panels Park PETER ALLEN plant porch problem Reims Renaissance RESIDENCE roof sculpture side small house space STAIR street tects tecture TERRACE theatre tion ture WALKER & GILLETTE wall ward Willis Polk WILSON EYRE workers York City
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455 psl. - The limit of this article will be the question, when the doctrine that a man's house is his castle will justify the taking of human life. The resolution of the judges in Seymane's Case, 5 Coke, 91, was " that the house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defense against injury and violence, as for his repose...
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59 psl. - One might think that such a problem would interest no one but an engineer. Nothing of the kind ! The simple power of necessity is to a certain degree a principle of beauty; and these structures so plainly manifest this necessity that you feel a strange emotion in contemplating them.