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The Light of Truth and Beauty: The Lectures of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Architect, 1817 - 1875 QUOTES

The Light of Truth and Beauty: The Lectures of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Architect, 1817 - 1875 QUOTES

1 " Donaldson's Hospital in Edinburgh, of which great things were expected, fails to excite even a passing remark; while the High School, the fragments of the National Monument, Dugald Stewart's Monument, Surgeon's Hall, and the Institution on the Mound, continue to illuminate their respective localities with the light of truth and beauty, giving to our northern metropolis an air of refinement which no other city in the kingdom possesses. "

― Alexander Thomson , The Light of Truth and Beauty: The Lectures of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, Architect, 1817 - 1875