An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 7
... becomes immediately connected with ophiolatry , or ser- pent worship , a sin which beset the Israelites , and which would stamp it as proceeding from the central N stamen of the hypothesis on which Mr. Higgins sets out . See Observ ...
... becomes immediately connected with ophiolatry , or ser- pent worship , a sin which beset the Israelites , and which would stamp it as proceeding from the central N stamen of the hypothesis on which Mr. Higgins sets out . See Observ ...
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... becomes clumsi- ness ; art then disappears , and character becomes caricature . Though we think it useful thus to analyse Egyptian art , it must not be supposed that we are insensible to its imposing , and often picturesque , effect ...
... becomes clumsi- ness ; art then disappears , and character becomes caricature . Though we think it useful thus to analyse Egyptian art , it must not be supposed that we are insensible to its imposing , and often picturesque , effect ...
Page 48
... becomes distinct , as well as the four stories whereof it consists , though they are covered with vegetation . Humboldt compares it to a square whose base is four times that of the Place Vendome at Paris covered with bricks to a height ...
... becomes distinct , as well as the four stories whereof it consists , though they are covered with vegetation . Humboldt compares it to a square whose base is four times that of the Place Vendome at Paris covered with bricks to a height ...
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... becomes then of the " travelling bodies of freemasons " who are said to have erected all the great buildings of Europe ? Did they ever exist ? The earliest mention of them appears to have been promulgated by Aubrey , some time before ...
... becomes then of the " travelling bodies of freemasons " who are said to have erected all the great buildings of Europe ? Did they ever exist ? The earliest mention of them appears to have been promulgated by Aubrey , some time before ...
Page 138
... becomes poor when translated into French , as at the Luxembourg . 332. So late as 1454 , we find in the Strozzi and other palaces semicircular - headed win- dows , wherein are half columns at the sides , and a column in the middle ...
... becomes poor when translated into French , as at the Luxembourg . 332. So late as 1454 , we find in the Strozzi and other palaces semicircular - headed win- dows , wherein are half columns at the sides , and a column in the middle ...
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