How to plan a house : a book for all about to build / by George Gordon Samson.

  • Samson, George Gordon.
Date:
1914
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: How to plan a house : a book for all about to build / by George Gordon Samson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an acre of land or a row of cottages. All people, a certain critic assures us, may be divided into four classes: firstly, those who write; secondly, those who have written; thirdly, those who are going to write ; and lastly, those who are, or believe themselves to be, victims of a conspiracy on the part of editors and publishers banded together—from motives of philanthropy we outsiders may think— to prevent them from writing. But surely the ambition to write is not more deeply rooted in the British mind—at any rate in the male mind—than the ambition to build. How often the mechanic invests the savings of long years in bricks and mortar; to what but “a little property” does the mind of the shopkeeper revert when he has a few spare hundreds to invest outside his business? Nor are professional men any less subject to the love of property ; most doctors build, and amongst lawyers who is there that does not ?