Vulgar words in North America — Volume 2 (Page 1)
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Had I been left to classify it by my own unaided lights, I should have called it bastard Gothic.
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Of the other considerable public building of Washington, called the Smithsonian Institution, I have said that its style was bastard Gothic; by this I mean that its main attributes are Gothic, but that liberties have been taken with it, which, whether they may injure its beauty or no, certainly are subversive of architectural purity.