An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... course , proportioned the means which the spot afforded , and to the nature of the climate to which they were to adapted . Reeds , canes , the branches , bark , and leaves of trees , clay , and similar mater would be first used . The ...
... course , proportioned the means which the spot afforded , and to the nature of the climate to which they were to adapted . Reeds , canes , the branches , bark , and leaves of trees , clay , and similar mater would be first used . The ...
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... courses as above shown , 34 courses being at present visible . They are laid with the greatest precision , without cement , and are unequal in size . Their Fig . 15. PLAN OF TREASURY OF ATREUS . average height may be taken at 2 ft ...
... courses as above shown , 34 courses being at present visible . They are laid with the greatest precision , without cement , and are unequal in size . Their Fig . 15. PLAN OF TREASURY OF ATREUS . average height may be taken at 2 ft ...
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... course would almost pre- serve the opening without any arch at all . 76. THE FORM AND DISPOSITION of the Egyptian temple seem to have been founded on immutable rules The only points wherein they differ from one an- other are in the ...
... course would almost pre- serve the opening without any arch at all . 76. THE FORM AND DISPOSITION of the Egyptian temple seem to have been founded on immutable rules The only points wherein they differ from one an- other are in the ...
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... course varied in size and plan . The streets were narrow and laid out with regularity ; and the mixture , as frequently met with in eastern towns , of large houses with low hovels , appears to have been avoided . In Thebes , the number ...
... course varied in size and plan . The streets were narrow and laid out with regularity ; and the mixture , as frequently met with in eastern towns , of large houses with low hovels , appears to have been avoided . In Thebes , the number ...
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... courses as headers and stretchers on the two faces of them ; so that the headers meet , and thus occupy the whole thickness , leaving a void space between the stretchers : they then carry up another course of stretchers , breaking the ...
... courses as headers and stretchers on the two faces of them ; so that the headers meet , and thus occupy the whole thickness , leaving a void space between the stretchers : they then carry up another course of stretchers , breaking the ...
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