An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 16
... whole embankment is abrupt , and shivered by the action of the water . At the narrowest part E , cemented into the burnt brick wall , there were a number of urns filled with human bones which had not undergone the action of fire . From ...
... whole embankment is abrupt , and shivered by the action of the water . At the narrowest part E , cemented into the burnt brick wall , there were a number of urns filled with human bones which had not undergone the action of fire . From ...
Page 33
... whole way from the pyramids of Gizeh to those of Saccara , as if the whole had once constituted one great city . The stones of the platform are soft limestone , a little harder and more compact than what in England is called clunch ...
... whole way from the pyramids of Gizeh to those of Saccara , as if the whole had once constituted one great city . The stones of the platform are soft limestone , a little harder and more compact than what in England is called clunch ...
Page 35
... whole , taken in at a single glance , could be measured from any one of its Fig . 49 . parts , those of Egypt were an assemblage of porticoes , courts , vestibules , galleries , apartments , communicating with each other , and ...
... whole , taken in at a single glance , could be measured from any one of its Fig . 49 . parts , those of Egypt were an assemblage of porticoes , courts , vestibules , galleries , apartments , communicating with each other , and ...
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... whole length . On the side towards the street the shops are placed , beyond which a quadrangular open vestibule leads to the private apartments , which are distributed on the right and left of the passage . There is a salon , usually ...
... whole length . On the side towards the street the shops are placed , beyond which a quadrangular open vestibule leads to the private apartments , which are distributed on the right and left of the passage . There is a salon , usually ...
Page 53
... whole of the quadrangular space is internally divided into two parts , viz . a court of 210 ft . in depth , the mosque itself covering the remainder of the area . The mosque consists of nineteen naves ( of a portion of one whereof fig ...
... whole of the quadrangular space is internally divided into two parts , viz . a court of 210 ft . in depth , the mosque itself covering the remainder of the area . The mosque consists of nineteen naves ( of a portion of one whereof fig ...
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