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... kind . According to the computation of the most authoritative chronologers , it was but about a cen- tury after the flood when a CITY is recorded to have been built . The very expression , a city , implies civil architecture , or ...
... kind . According to the computation of the most authoritative chronologers , it was but about a cen- tury after the flood when a CITY is recorded to have been built . The very expression , a city , implies civil architecture , or ...
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... kind of architecture , the Monumental . The First particular Building , of which notice has been preserved in hiftory , is that extraordi- nary one , described in the account of the first city , the tower of Babel . The term tower ...
... kind of architecture , the Monumental . The First particular Building , of which notice has been preserved in hiftory , is that extraordi- nary one , described in the account of the first city , the tower of Babel . The term tower ...
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... kind of monumental architecture , of which instances are so numerous in various parts of our own country , not only has been very extensive over the world , but remained in common use , to times when arts were so advanced that we should ...
... kind of monumental architecture , of which instances are so numerous in various parts of our own country , not only has been very extensive over the world , but remained in common use , to times when arts were so advanced that we should ...
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... kind of monument . The earliest instance on record , what appears to have been , not indeed properly of a building , but a first step in the progress toward monumental architecture , is the erection of a stone by Jacob , as a pillar ...
... kind of monument . The earliest instance on record , what appears to have been , not indeed properly of a building , but a first step in the progress toward monumental architecture , is the erection of a stone by Jacob , as a pillar ...
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... kind , the latter essentially infe- rior . In Greece , though most of its forests have now been many centuries prostrate , yet , to the time of its earliest extant historians , timber abounded . The example then of Phe- nicia , the ...
... kind , the latter essentially infe- rior . In Greece , though most of its forests have now been many centuries prostrate , yet , to the time of its earliest extant historians , timber abounded . The example then of Phe- nicia , the ...
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Strona 158 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Strona 134 - CAITI.I. called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed ; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel, is so managed as to leave no doubt...
Strona 197 - Jungere si velit, et varias inducere plumas Undique collatis membris, ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne, Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici...
Strona 271 - I venture to deliver it as . my opinion that there are only two characters of buildings: the one may be called perpendicular, and the other horizontal. Under the first, I class all buildings erected in England before and during the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whether deemed Saracenic, Saxon, Norman, or the Gothic of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries ; and even that peculiar kind called Queen Elizabeth's Gothic, in which turrets prevailed, though battlements were discarded and Grecian...
Strona 133 - Conway," observes an anonymous author, "what is called the Queen's Oriel is remarkable for the fancy, luxuriance, and elegance of the workmanship. Nor is the contrivance of the little terraced garden below, considering the history of the times, a matter of small curiosity, where, though all the surrounding country were hostile, fresh air might be safely enjoyed; and the commanding view of the singularly beautiful landscape around, from both that little herbary or garden, and the bay window or oriel...
Strona 258 - ... above may be increased, or must be diminished, according to circumstances. If a greater width of foundation be thought necessary, it must be gained by increasing the number of the footings, and not their width. The height of abutment, and span, and rise of arch, I suppose prescribed for the engineer.
Strona 86 - Instead of a mere sacristy for the priests, the term at which the pomp of processions ended, and in front of which, under the vault of the sky...
Strona 44 - Tis with our judgements as our watches, none Co just alike, but each believes his own.