The Encyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalCrown, 1982 - 1364 pages |
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... existed in India , Persia , Greece , Italy , and Britain , and that the religion of the Druids , Magi , and Brahmins was the same . 22. ( 3. ) Sacrificial Stones . These have been confounded with the cromlech , but the difference ...
... existed in India , Persia , Greece , Italy , and Britain , and that the religion of the Druids , Magi , and Brahmins was the same . 22. ( 3. ) Sacrificial Stones . These have been confounded with the cromlech , but the difference ...
Page 31
... existed on the minds of some whether the body was , after all , deposited in the pyramids , which have been thought to be enormous cenotaphs , and that the body was in some subterraneous and neighbouring spot . Other writers pretend ...
... existed on the minds of some whether the body was , after all , deposited in the pyramids , which have been thought to be enormous cenotaphs , and that the body was in some subterraneous and neighbouring spot . Other writers pretend ...
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... existed with the architects for ill - shaped , and , perhaps , almost grotesque , urns and globes , on every part where there was a resting - place for them . Kent not unfrequently disfigured his works in this way , but more especially ...
... existed with the architects for ill - shaped , and , perhaps , almost grotesque , urns and globes , on every part where there was a resting - place for them . Kent not unfrequently disfigured his works in this way , but more especially ...
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