Opis: Notes and Sketches of an Architect - Peto John

Excerpt from Notes and Sketches of an Architect: Taken During a Journey in the Northwest of Europe, Translated From the French of Flix Narjoux

It has long been thought necessary that a young man should visit foreign countries in order to complete his education, and it has also, from the earliest times, and with very great propriety, been asserted, that foreign travel is no less fitted to develop the faculties of a man in maturer life; and from these maxims, the fruit of long experience, we may confidently deduce the incontestable and undoubted utility of visiting other countries besides our own.

And yet a taste for travelling has not been very common among us. The French have a strong objection to quit "la belle France," - some from an unwillingness to leave their homes; others, because it is not in their power. But all are agreed on one point, that, if they do not themselves travel, they ought to profit by the descriptions given by the fortunate individuals who are able to do so.

We are therefore performing a task useful to our fellow-men, when we record the events of our wanderings. But all the readers of this class of books are unanimously agreed that those which excite the warmest interest and from which they can derive the greatest advantage and satisfaction are illustrated works, in which a great number of plates render the narrative more intelligible.

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Szczegóły: Notes and Sketches of an Architect - Peto John

Nazwa: Notes and Sketches of an Architect Taken During a Journey in the Northwest of Europe, Translated From the French of F?lix Narjoux (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Peto John
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330546765
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 454
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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