An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongmans, Green, 1876 - 1395 pages |
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... Tower of St. Mary Overy , or St. Saviour's Church , Southwark . Joseph Gwilt received his earliest instruction at a boarding - school , from which , in 1798 , he was removed to St. Paul's School , where he remained two years , and then ...
... Tower of St. Mary Overy , or St. Saviour's Church , Southwark . Joseph Gwilt received his earliest instruction at a boarding - school , from which , in 1798 , he was removed to St. Paul's School , where he remained two years , and then ...
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... towers are raised , whose walls consist of trees laid horizon- tally , but kept per- pendicularly over each other ... Tower of Babel was constructed . These also , at a very remote period , were used by the Egyptians . Tiles seem to ...
... towers are raised , whose walls consist of trees laid horizon- tally , but kept per- pendicularly over each other ... Tower of Babel was constructed . These also , at a very remote period , were used by the Egyptians . Tiles seem to ...
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... tower were particularly ascribed to them ( Pausanias , lib . ii . ) Argos had also the reputation of being Cyclopean ... towers built by the people . " Further on , he adds , These towers were erected likewise for Purait , or Puratheia ...
... tower were particularly ascribed to them ( Pausanias , lib . ii . ) Argos had also the reputation of being Cyclopean ... towers built by the people . " Further on , he adds , These towers were erected likewise for Purait , or Puratheia ...
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... tower , C , which is 20 ft . square and 40 ft . high , passing , at the end of the last named side , under a gateway , composed of very large blocks of stone , that which forms the architrave being 10 ft . long , and over which , from ...
... tower , C , which is 20 ft . square and 40 ft . high , passing , at the end of the last named side , under a gateway , composed of very large blocks of stone , that which forms the architrave being 10 ft . long , and over which , from ...
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... towers were placed , and the city was entered by 100 gates of brass . In the centre of each of the principal divisions of ... tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to ...
... towers were placed , and the city was entered by 100 gates of brass . In the centre of each of the principal divisions of ... tower as a base were raised , in regular succession , seven other lofty towers , and the whole , according to ...
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