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... artist , who in all cases would be of a subordinate class , were the verbal instructions delivered to him by these superiors , when they might happen to require his assist- ance ; together with the impress on his mind resulting from ...
... artist , who in all cases would be of a subordinate class , were the verbal instructions delivered to him by these superiors , when they might happen to require his assist- ance ; together with the impress on his mind resulting from ...
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... artist on the one hand , of philologists on the other ; corroboration by reference to existing edifices , and the ability to exhibit the results at length deduced , in the technical and scientific language of a foreign people , were all ...
... artist on the one hand , of philologists on the other ; corroboration by reference to existing edifices , and the ability to exhibit the results at length deduced , in the technical and scientific language of a foreign people , were all ...
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... artists and pundits who had been supposed to know any thing of the matter , and as often despaired of meeting with any success ; at length I have fortunately found a good sculptor of the Cammata tribe , a native of Tanjore , who is well ...
... artists and pundits who had been supposed to know any thing of the matter , and as often despaired of meeting with any success ; at length I have fortunately found a good sculptor of the Cammata tribe , a native of Tanjore , who is well ...
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... artists themselves , nothing but the titles of the works are now generally known to the learned . Speaking of these treatises , Sir William Jones expresses it as his opinion that they contained useful information on sixty - four ...
... artists themselves , nothing but the titles of the works are now generally known to the learned . Speaking of these treatises , Sir William Jones expresses it as his opinion that they contained useful information on sixty - four ...
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... artists , are recorded the names of the authors or titles of the above - mentioned sixty - four treatises . Of these ... artist proverbially knows that there have been thirty - two principal , and as many subordinate works on this ...
... artists , are recorded the names of the authors or titles of the above - mentioned sixty - four treatises . Of these ... artist proverbially knows that there have been thirty - two principal , and as many subordinate works on this ...
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Page 21 - ... proportions of symmetry." (p. 15.) The third chapter treats of the nature and quality of ground on which buildings are to be erected ; it is very copious and very curious. Minute directions are given for constructing a plough, and for ploughing the ground on which the house is to be built. This being done, " let sesamum seeds, pulse, and kidneybeans be sown, with incantations pronounced over them; and let due reverence be paid to the spiritual teacher ; and let the oxen, and the plough to which...
Page 17 - Wo to them who dwell in a house not built according to the proportions of symmetry. in building an edifice, therefore, let all its parts, from the basement to the roof, be duly considered.
Page 18 - The ground to be avoided is described in a special manner as follows : " That which has the form of a circle, a semicircle, containing three, five, or six angles, resembling a trident or a winnow, shaped like the hinder part of a fish, or the back of an elephant, or a turtle, or the face of a cow, and the like ; situated opposite to any of the intermediate quarters northwest, and the like ; abounding with human sculls, stones, worms, ant-hills, ON THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE HINDUS.