Quote#Wisdom
Brown...is the rather indefinite appellation of a very extensive…
Quote byGeorge Field · 1777–1854
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Chromatography (1835), Ch. 18, p. 155.
English (original)
Brown...is the rather indefinite appellation of a very extensive class of colours of warm or tawny hues....The term brown...properly denotes a warm broken colour, of which yellow is a principal constituent: hence brown is in some measure to shade what yellow is to light, and warm or ruddy browns follow yellows naturally as shading or deepening colours.
— George Field
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