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... placed in a sphere of action where talents such as his could not long remain unknown , and which soon raised him to the responsible and highly honourable post of Judge and Magistrate . By a regular course of private study while at ...
... placed in a sphere of action where talents such as his could not long remain unknown , and which soon raised him to the responsible and highly honourable post of Judge and Magistrate . By a regular course of private study while at ...
Page xiii
... placed this matter beyond a doubt . And for my own part , I will not venture to affirm any thing with certainty , until I have collected sufficient information to form an opinion as to this alleged affinity in the architecture of Egypt ...
... placed this matter beyond a doubt . And for my own part , I will not venture to affirm any thing with certainty , until I have collected sufficient information to form an opinion as to this alleged affinity in the architecture of Egypt ...
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... placed under the base of a column or pilaster , but frequently employed , both singly and together with the latter , as a pavement for temples and porticoes , over cornices of edifices consisting of several stories in height , and also ...
... placed under the base of a column or pilaster , but frequently employed , both singly and together with the latter , as a pavement for temples and porticoes , over cornices of edifices consisting of several stories in height , and also ...
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... placed with its bottom reversed , is often so designed as to project forward or rise up , after having touched , as it were , the fillet below , with a small perpendicular curvature , resembling in shape the petal of the lotus , with ...
... placed with its bottom reversed , is often so designed as to project forward or rise up , after having touched , as it were , the fillet below , with a small perpendicular curvature , resembling in shape the petal of the lotus , with ...
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... placed in cornices , found to be externally a little more inclined to one side than to the other ; and in this situation it very much resembles the cavetto , A pat'tá or pat❜tica ( 7 ) signifies a band . It is often confounded with the ...
... placed in cornices , found to be externally a little more inclined to one side than to the other ; and in this situation it very much resembles the cavetto , A pat'tá or pat❜tica ( 7 ) signifies a band . It is often confounded with the ...
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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.