Fabrick

State settlements, Morris wrote, represented “the Corner Stone of the whole Fabrick.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

State settlements, Morris wrote, represented “the Corner Stone of the whole Fabrick.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Temple of Apollo; a very stately Fabrick, with an adjacent House of Holy Priests, Votaries to that God.

Exilius 2008

Conjugal Faith seldom stands long; the first Wind that blows at the Change of Honey − Moon, will go near to shake, if not quite overthrow, the Fabrick.

Exilius 2008

This puts me in mind of what I have heard some Philosophers assert, about the Clashing of Atoms, which at last united to compose this glorious Fabrick of the Universe.

A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies 2008

It is not the Bulk of the Fabrick, the Richness and Quantity of the Materials, the Multiplicity of Lines, nor the Gaudiness of Finishing, that give Grace or Beauty to the Building; but the Proportion of the Parts to one another and to the Whole, whether entirely plain, or enriched with a few Ornaments properly disposed.

Archive 2006-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2006

It is not the Bulk of the Fabrick, the Richness and Quantity of the Materials, the Multiplicity of Lines, nor the Gaudiness of Finishing, that give Grace or Beauty to the Building; but the Proportion of the Parts to one another and to the Whole, whether entirely plain, or enriched with a few Ornaments properly disposed.

Under Construction Young Geoffrion 2006

* In email, Jim Cambias "James L. Cambias" to his friends makes the very interesting comment that American children's books are the hidden substrate, and perhaps the Whole Fabrick, of the Matter of America.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2004

When I reflect upon the many perplexing scenes, and difficulties through which you have passt in the last ten years, I conceive them sufficient, to batter down a stronger building than the Fabrick you occupy.

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 24 August 1783 1993

More than half a score years has so rivetted it there, that the Fabrick which contains it must crumble into

Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 December 1778 1973