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Neither use nor ornament

Posted by Gary Martin May 25, 2006In reply to Neither use nor ornament posted by Lisa Hart on May 25, 2006

where does the phrase " Neither use nor ornament" come from?

I'm not sure that this is the source, but Edmund Burke did say 'Stonehendge, neither for disposition nor ornament, has anything admirable', in 1756.

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