An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 61
... course of a war levied on it , in a general council , and in its place , as a mark of favour towards king Attalus and Arsinoe , the city of Smyrna was received into the number of the Ionian states . These received the appellation of ...
... course of a war levied on it , in a general council , and in its place , as a mark of favour towards king Attalus and Arsinoe , the city of Smyrna was received into the number of the Ionian states . These received the appellation of ...
Page 92
... course of it required over valleys , and otherwise became necessary from the nature of the face of the country , such a quantity as the source would afford . Hence the arcades raised to carry this simple trough of supply were often of ...
... course of it required over valleys , and otherwise became necessary from the nature of the face of the country , such a quantity as the source would afford . Hence the arcades raised to carry this simple trough of supply were often of ...
Page 98
... course ; from its length called Zrádiov ( stadium ) ; as also Kipkos , from its oval figure . With the Romans it became a regular building of great dimensions and magnificence . The Circus Maximus , constructed originally in a rude ...
... course ; from its length called Zrádiov ( stadium ) ; as also Kipkos , from its oval figure . With the Romans it became a regular building of great dimensions and magnificence . The Circus Maximus , constructed originally in a rude ...
Page 175
... course , an object that churches should be erected and convents endowed . On the subject of the employment of Freemasons we have already expressed our views ( par . 308 , et seq . ) , therefore we cannot coincide with Wren , Parentalia ...
... course , an object that churches should be erected and convents endowed . On the subject of the employment of Freemasons we have already expressed our views ( par . 308 , et seq . ) , therefore we cannot coincide with Wren , Parentalia ...
Page 179
... course of this period was brought to the highest perfection . " To account in some measure for this , it must be recollected that during the civil wars the superior ecclesiastics were confined to their cloisters , as few of them had ...
... course of this period was brought to the highest perfection . " To account in some measure for this , it must be recollected that during the civil wars the superior ecclesiastics were confined to their cloisters , as few of them had ...
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