| John Manley Hall - Great Britain - 1906 - 168 pages
...be applied at their discretion to the construction of improved dwellings for the poor, which should combine in the utmost possible degree the essentials...healthfulness, comfort, social enjoyment, and economy. Subsequent gifts by this noble-minded philanthropist aggregated nearly $4,250,000. While these efforts... | |
| Nikolaus Pevsner - Art - 1908 - 296 pages
...originally consisted of four blocks of dwellings in an Italianate style, each with a decorated doorway combine in the utmost possible degree the essentials...healthfulness, comfort, social enjoyment, and economy.'" 'The Peabody Building [in Commercial Street, Whitechapel] on which is 26-28 being expended a part of... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1863 - 860 pages
...to apply tho fund, or a portion of it, in the construction of such improved dwellings for the poor as may combine, in the utmost possible degree, the...healthfulness, comfort, social enjoyment, and economy. 1 ' Preparatory to due provision being made for the formal declaration of the trust, anil for its future... | |
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