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Book: Gardening tours by J.C. Loudon 1831-1842
Chapter: Manchester, Chester, Liverpool and Scotland in the Summer of 1831

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2. Cottages built by Landed Proprietors for their Servants.- The principal fault which we have to find with this class of dwellings is, that the taste which they affect to display is too often at variance with the principles of utility and convenience; and yet nothing can be more certain than that utility is the fundamental principle of all permanent beauty.