Book: A treatise on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, adapted to North America,1841
Chapter: Section IX. Landscape Or Rural Architecture

The three principles of landscape or rural architecture

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The leading principles which should be our guide in Landscape or Rural Architecture, have been condensed by an able writer in the following heads. "1st, As a useful art, in FITNESS FOR THE END IN VIEW: 2d, as an art of design in EXPRESSION OF PURPOSE: 3d, as an art of taste, in EXPRESSION OF SOME PARTICULAR ARCHITECTURAL STYLE."