...did, even if we had the elements of such worship in us, and such designs as the ancients had, were produced 'by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty.' The taste must be a national one to be truly productive of anything lastingly admirable. It will not...

...pinnacles. Now, pardon me for telling you frankly, you cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...statement of mine has been more earnestly or oftener oontr> verted than that good taste is essentially a moral quality. 'No,' say many of my antagonists,...

...hands of childhood. — Stones of Venice, p. 241. You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty. — Crown of Wild Olive, Lect. II., p. 45. Every man has, at some time of his life, personal interest...

...hands of childhood. — Stones of Venice, p. 241. You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty. — Crown of Wild Olive, Lect. II., p. 45. Every man has, at some time of his life, personal interest...

...pinnacles. .N"ow, pardon me for telling you frankly, you cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...statement of mine has been more earnestly or oftener eontrorerted than that good taste is essentially a moral quality. ' No,' say many of my antagonists,...

...pinnacles. Now, pardon me for telling you frankly, you cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life lui'l character; and it is produced by a prevalent and eager national taste, or desire for beauty....

...pinnacles. JSTow, pardon me for telling you frankly, you cannot hav' good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...the deep significance of this word ' taste ;' for no itatcmeut of mine has been more earnestly or oftener controrerted than that good taste is essentially...

...health, power and pleasure. We will likewise take the liberty of changing this sentence from Ruskin, "All good architecture is the expression of national life and character," and specialize it into this: "All good Christian architecture is the expression of Christian life and character."...

...first, this love for beautiful buildings has been highly developed among civilized nations. Ruskin says, "All good architecture is the expression of national life and character, and is produced by a permanent and eager desire or taste for beauty." A taste for pictures, merely, is...

...Olive, II. Now, pardon me for telling you frankly, you cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture...national taste, or desire for beauty. * * * * And so completely and unexceptionally is this so, that, if I had time to-night, I could show you that a...