Houses, villas, cottages and bungalows : for Britishers and Americans abroad / by George Gordon Samson.

  • Samson, G. Gordon.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Houses, villas, cottages and bungalows : for Britishers and Americans abroad / by George Gordon Samson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    forts, the well-being, and the pleasures of his existence ; essentially retaining his own nationality while ever eager to assimilate everything that better ministers to his needs and pleasures from the foreign ways and the habits of the peoples amongst whom he wanders. He comes to the South because the South offers him delicacies of sun and climate which his native land cannot boast, and in living in the South for part or all of each year he should essay rather to enhance the joys of better climate by surrounding himself with all the accustomed comforts of his own country added to the best ideas and usages of his adopted one, than to content himself with the advantages of climate alone and daily subserviate his inherent tastes to the ways of the peoples and places of his adoption, where those ways happen to clash with his most cherished and deeply rooted habits. Surely the first is true epicurism—the art of extracting the greatest joy and pleasure Irom life. But the second is exile.