An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... produced an effect upon them for which they were not prepared . It occupies an area of upwards of 3600 ft . from east to west , and above 3000 ft . from north to south , without including the three fore - courts . Mr. Barrow , in his ...
... produced an effect upon them for which they were not prepared . It occupies an area of upwards of 3600 ft . from east to west , and above 3000 ft . from north to south , without including the three fore - courts . Mr. Barrow , in his ...
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... produces a perception of greater magnitude than would be produced by the same object if seen more distinctly . The same explanation may serve to account for the well - known fact , that the top of an undiminished pilaster appears so ...
... produces a perception of greater magnitude than would be produced by the same object if seen more distinctly . The same explanation may serve to account for the well - known fact , that the top of an undiminished pilaster appears so ...
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... produced by the employment of columns instead of the old system of arcades , is extremely pleasing , though , as has ... produce works which may properly be called monumental ; in this country , the government has never applied itself to ...
... produced by the employment of columns instead of the old system of arcades , is extremely pleasing , though , as has ... produce works which may properly be called monumental ; in this country , the government has never applied itself to ...
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... produced his second and third groups of masses ; he perfectly understood in his art what is most dif- ficult in ours , the conduct of the backgrounds by which the design and invention is ( are ) set off to the greatest advantage . What ...
... produced his second and third groups of masses ; he perfectly understood in his art what is most dif- ficult in ours , the conduct of the backgrounds by which the design and invention is ( are ) set off to the greatest advantage . What ...
Page 295
... produced at Fig . 387 . Fig . 388 . 1027. PROB . XXXI . To make a triangle egual to a given pentagon ABCDE . Draw DA ... Produce one side AB till BE be equal to the other side BC ( fig . 391. ) . On AE as a diameter describe a circle ...
... produced at Fig . 387 . Fig . 388 . 1027. PROB . XXXI . To make a triangle egual to a given pentagon ABCDE . Draw DA ... Produce one side AB till BE be equal to the other side BC ( fig . 391. ) . On AE as a diameter describe a circle ...
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