An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... bricks , stone , marble , and the like ; and edifices were reared of unparalleled magnificence and solidity . It seems likely , that bricks would have been in use for a considerable period before stone was employed in building . They ...
... bricks , stone , marble , and the like ; and edifices were reared of unparalleled magnificence and solidity . It seems likely , that bricks would have been in use for a considerable period before stone was employed in building . They ...
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... bricks were formed and baked in a furnace . With these , cemented together through the medium of heated bitumen intermixed with reeds to bind together the viscid mass , the sides of the trenches were lined , and with the same materials ...
... bricks were formed and baked in a furnace . With these , cemented together through the medium of heated bitumen intermixed with reeds to bind together the viscid mass , the sides of the trenches were lined , and with the same materials ...
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... bricks , on one of whose sides a few yards of wall remain , the face whereof is clear and perfect , and appears to have been the front of some building . The opposite side is so confused a mass of rubbish , that it looks as if the ...
... bricks , on one of whose sides a few yards of wall remain , the face whereof is clear and perfect , and appears to have been the front of some building . The opposite side is so confused a mass of rubbish , that it looks as if the ...
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... bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so admirable is Fig . 21 . the cement , which appears to be lime mortar , that , though the layers are so close together that it is difficult to discern what substance is be ...
... bricks of which it is built have inscriptions on them ; and so admirable is Fig . 21 . the cement , which appears to be lime mortar , that , though the layers are so close together that it is difficult to discern what substance is be ...
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... brick , of which two sorts were made . The one was merely dried in the sun , the other burned in a kiln . The latter ... bricks laid in bitumen were easily separated , but that where mortar had been employed , no force could detach them ...
... brick , of which two sorts were made . The one was merely dried in the sun , the other burned in a kiln . The latter ... bricks laid in bitumen were easily separated , but that where mortar had been employed , no force could detach them ...
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