An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer , and other instruments of carpentry were unknown . The Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary ...
... period of high antiquity . The saw , nails , the hammer , and other instruments of carpentry were unknown . The Greeks , who , as Jacob Bryant says , knew nothing of their own history , ascribe the invention of the instruments necessary ...
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... period ; though it is doubtful , as respects the three first , whether their reputation is not founded rather on the enormous masses of their works , than on beauty and sublimity of form . Strabo mentions many magnificent works which he ...
... period ; though it is doubtful , as respects the three first , whether their reputation is not founded rather on the enormous masses of their works , than on beauty and sublimity of form . Strabo mentions many magnificent works which he ...
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... period before it was necessary to resort to the labours of agriculture . In such a state of existence nothing appears more pro- bable than that they should have availed themselves of the most obvious shelter which nature afforded ...
... period before it was necessary to resort to the labours of agriculture . In such a state of existence nothing appears more pro- bable than that they should have availed themselves of the most obvious shelter which nature afforded ...
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... period can be assigned to the future duration of an architecture which , we apprehend , has existed amongst them from the earliest date of their dwelling in cities . 98. ( 2. ) TIMBER is the chief material in use among the Chinese ...
... period can be assigned to the future duration of an architecture which , we apprehend , has existed amongst them from the earliest date of their dwelling in cities . 98. ( 2. ) TIMBER is the chief material in use among the Chinese ...
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... period of five hundred years . The chosen spot is on the eastern bank of the Tigris , about fifteen miles above Modain ; the double wall was of a circular form ; " and such , " says Gibbon , " was the rapid increase of a capital , now ...
... period of five hundred years . The chosen spot is on the eastern bank of the Tigris , about fifteen miles above Modain ; the double wall was of a circular form ; " and such , " says Gibbon , " was the rapid increase of a capital , now ...
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