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Among the Peruvians , at their invasion by the Spaniards , the only tools in use
were the hatchet and the adze ; and we may fairly assume that similar tools were
the only ones known at a period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer ...
Among the Peruvians , at their invasion by the Spaniards , the only tools in use
were the hatchet and the adze ; and we may fairly assume that similar tools were
the only ones known at a period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer ...
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Both were strongly impregnated with the vices and defects into which the Roman
architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean ,
we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at ...
Both were strongly impregnated with the vices and defects into which the Roman
architecture of the period had fallen . For the sake of illustrating what we mean ,
we refer , as examples , to the Baths of Dioclesian , to that emperor's palace at ...
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This knowledge was not confined to them , for there is abundant proof , which at
that period gave the fashion in them ... distribution and ornament , and acquired
peculiar characters , which in both may be divided into three periods , the last in ...
This knowledge was not confined to them , for there is abundant proof , which at
that period gave the fashion in them ... distribution and ornament , and acquired
peculiar characters , which in both may be divided into three periods , the last in ...
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The third period of Arabian architecture is from the end of the thirteenth century to
the decline of the Saracen power in Spain . During a portion of this period , it was
used by the Spaniards themselves , and like the Gothic , in the northern and ...
The third period of Arabian architecture is from the end of the thirteenth century to
the decline of the Saracen power in Spain . During a portion of this period , it was
used by the Spaniards themselves , and like the Gothic , in the northern and ...
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was built about 630 years before the Christian æra ; and after this period were
reared temples at Samos , Priene , Ephesus , and Magnesia , and other places
up to that age when , under the administration of Pericles , the architecture of ...
was built about 630 years before the Christian æra ; and after this period were
reared temples at Samos , Priene , Ephesus , and Magnesia , and other places
up to that age when , under the administration of Pericles , the architecture of ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & Practical |
| Author | Joseph Gwilt |
| Editor | Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau Papworth |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Longmans, Green, and Company, 1891 |
| Length | 1443 pages |
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