 An east window gives the infant beams of the sun, before they are of strength to do harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window in summer is a chimney with a fire in it, and stands in need to be screened by a curtain. In a west window...  The English Home - Page 52by Sir Banister Fletcher, Herbert Phillips Fletcher - 1910 - 392 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Gwilt - Architecture - 1826 - 290 pages
...daughter) is a principal beauty in a building. Yet it shines not alike from all parts of the heavens. An east window gives the infant beams of the sun before they are of strength to do any harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window, in summer, is a chimney... | |
 | Gervase Wheeler - Architecture, Domestic - 1855 - 488 pages
...daughter) is a principal beauty in a building ; yet it shines out alike from all parts of the heavens. An east window gives the infant beams of the sun, before they are of strength to do harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window in summer is a chimney... | |
 | Sir Shirley Forster Murphy, Robert Brudenell Carter - Architecture, Domestic - 1883 - 974 pages
...daughter) is a principal beauty in a building, yet it shines not alike from all parts of the heavens. An east window gives the infant beams of the sun before they are of strength to do harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard. A south window in summer is a chimney... | |
 | Sir Banister Fletcher - Architecture, Domestic - 1911 - 320 pages
...much morning sun as possible, and should therefore have an east, south-east, or south-western aspect. As old Dr. Fuller said in the seventeenth century:...do harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard." The position of the bed should be indicated on the architect's plans, and should not be in a direct... | |
 | Sir Banister Fletcher - 1921 - 316 pages
...much morning sun as possible, and should therefore have an east, south-east, or south-western aspect. As old Dr. Fuller said in the seventeenth century:...do harm, and is offensive to none but a sluggard." The position of the bed should be indicated on the architect's plans, and should not be in a direct... | |
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