An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... notice of Pausanias . The surmise is borre out by the non - mention of so celebrated a character , if he had ever existed , by Homer , and , afterwards , by Herodotus . The industry and perseverance of man , however , in the end ...
... notice of Pausanias . The surmise is borre out by the non - mention of so celebrated a character , if he had ever existed , by Homer , and , afterwards , by Herodotus . The industry and perseverance of man , however , in the end ...
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... notice another singular coincidence , that of the Bothel a Cornwall being set up in a place which , from its proximi y to an oak which was near the pot , was called Bothel - ac ; the last syllable being the Saxon for an oak . It appears ...
... notice another singular coincidence , that of the Bothel a Cornwall being set up in a place which , from its proximi y to an oak which was near the pot , was called Bothel - ac ; the last syllable being the Saxon for an oak . It appears ...
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... notice of the earlier monuments of antiquity incomplete without naming the cairn . 25. ( 5. ) Logan or Rocking Stones . These were large blocks poised so nicely on the The weight of the points of rocks , that a small force applied to ...
... notice of the earlier monuments of antiquity incomplete without naming the cairn . 25. ( 5. ) Logan or Rocking Stones . These were large blocks poised so nicely on the The weight of the points of rocks , that a small force applied to ...
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... notice of the reader , little more than massive walls composed of huge pieces of rock , scarcely more than piled together without the connecting medium of cement of any species . The method of its construction , considered as masonry ...
... notice of the reader , little more than massive walls composed of huge pieces of rock , scarcely more than piled together without the connecting medium of cement of any species . The method of its construction , considered as masonry ...
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... notice a building at Mycene , which has been called by some the Treasury of Atreus , or the tomb of his son Agamemnon mentioned by fi in Pausanias . This building at first misled some authors into a belief that the use of the arch was ...
... notice a building at Mycene , which has been called by some the Treasury of Atreus , or the tomb of his son Agamemnon mentioned by fi in Pausanias . This building at first misled some authors into a belief that the use of the arch was ...
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