An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... say that he has bestowed upon it all the care and energy in his power ; and he alone a responsible for its errors or ... says with sincerity , " Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecuin . " September 30 ...
... say that he has bestowed upon it all the care and energy in his power ; and he alone a responsible for its errors or ... says with sincerity , " Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti ; si non his utere mecuin . " September 30 ...
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... says , " O thou that dwe in the clefts of the rock , that holdest height of the hill ; " a text which of ... has received ample illustration from : vellers , and especially from the laboury Messrs . Leon de Laborde and Linant the ...
... says , " O thou that dwe in the clefts of the rock , that holdest height of the hill ; " a text which of ... has received ample illustration from : vellers , and especially from the laboury Messrs . Leon de Laborde and Linant the ...
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... says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary for working materials to DƦdalus ; but only a few of these were known even in the time of Homer , who confines himself to the hatchet with two ...
... says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary for working materials to DƦdalus ; but only a few of these were known even in the time of Homer , who confines himself to the hatchet with two ...
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... says Borlase , " is in the tenement of Men , in the parish of Constantine , in Cornwall ; it is one great oval pebble , placed on the points of two natural rocks , so that a man may creep under the great one , between the supporters ...
... says Borlase , " is in the tenement of Men , in the parish of Constantine , in Cornwall ; it is one great oval pebble , placed on the points of two natural rocks , so that a man may creep under the great one , between the supporters ...
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... says Jacob Bryant , " were , I make no doubt , seven Cyclopean towers built by the people . " Further on , he adds , " These towers were erected likewise for Purait , or Puratheia , where the rites of fire were performed : but Purait ...
... says Jacob Bryant , " were , I make no doubt , seven Cyclopean towers built by the people . " Further on , he adds , " These towers were erected likewise for Purait , or Puratheia , where the rites of fire were performed : but Purait ...
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