An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer , and other instruments of carpentry were unknown . The Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary ...
... period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer , and other instruments of carpentry were unknown . The Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary ...
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... period before it was necessary to resort to the labours of agriculture . In such a state of existence nothing appears more pro- bable than that they should have availed themselves of the most obvious shelter which nature afforded ...
... period before it was necessary to resort to the labours of agriculture . In such a state of existence nothing appears more pro- bable than that they should have availed themselves of the most obvious shelter which nature afforded ...
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... 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 Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius , - from all which may be ...
... 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 Salona , and to the buildings of Justinian and Theodosius , - from all which may be ...
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... periods , the last in each being lost in the change that took place in Italy on the revival of the arts . The periods of the Gothic will be noticed under the proper section . 126. The first period in the history of Moresque architecture ...
... periods , the last in each being lost in the change that took place in Italy on the revival of the arts . The periods of the Gothic will be noticed under the proper section . 126. The first period in the history of Moresque architecture ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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