An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... carried out , and many essential branches being entirely omitted , the work is not so generally useful as its name would imply . From these authorities , and many others , besides his own resources , the author of this encyclopƦdia has ...
... carried out , and many essential branches being entirely omitted , the work is not so generally useful as its name would imply . From these authorities , and many others , besides his own resources , the author of this encyclopƦdia has ...
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... ridge at the summit . whole of which they covered with clay , and thus carried off the rain . " The same aut t afterwards observes , " The woods about Pontus furnish such. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . Bona Origin and Progress Building.
... ridge at the summit . whole of which they covered with clay , and thus carried off the rain . " The same aut t afterwards observes , " The woods about Pontus furnish such. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE . Bona Origin and Progress Building.
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... carried it over a varz of elevations and depressions , which , with the curvature of the avenues , produces sufficier . the desired effect . To make it still more elegant and picture - like , the head of the snak carried up the southern ...
... carried it over a varz of elevations and depressions , which , with the curvature of the avenues , produces sufficier . the desired effect . To make it still more elegant and picture - like , the head of the snak carried up the southern ...
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... carried to the extreme ; in India , there is not the slightest appear- ance of it . Publications on Indian and Eastern Architecture , written by the late James Fergusson and others , are mentioned in the Catalogue of Books , SECT . VII ...
... carried to the extreme ; in India , there is not the slightest appear- ance of it . Publications on Indian and Eastern Architecture , written by the late James Fergusson and others , are mentioned in the Catalogue of Books , SECT . VII ...
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... carried up with bamboos in a few hours . It is in universal use . The missionaries inform us that BRICK has been in ... carry up another course of stretchers , breaking the vertical joints . STONE and MARBLE are little employed ; not on ...
... carried up with bamboos in a few hours . It is in universal use . The missionaries inform us that BRICK has been in ... carry up another course of stretchers , breaking the vertical joints . STONE and MARBLE are little employed ; not on ...
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