An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... raised , whose walls consist of trees laid horizon- tally , but kept per- pendicularly over each other , the al- ternate layers yok . ing the angles . The level inter- tices , which the thickness of the trees alternately leave , is ...
... raised , whose walls consist of trees laid horizon- tally , but kept per- pendicularly over each other , the al- ternate layers yok . ing the angles . The level inter- tices , which the thickness of the trees alternately leave , is ...
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... raised Our notion rather inclines to their over the bodies of deceased heroes and chieftains . having been a species of altar , though the heap of stones to which Jacob gave the name of Galeed , if it were of this species , was rather a ...
... raised Our notion rather inclines to their over the bodies of deceased heroes and chieftains . having been a species of altar , though the heap of stones to which Jacob gave the name of Galeed , if it were of this species , was rather a ...
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... raised under monarchies ; and we scarcely need cite any other than the ruins of Persepolis , of which an account is given in a previous section , to prove the assertion : these , in point of extent , exceed all that Egypt or Greece ...
... raised under monarchies ; and we scarcely need cite any other than the ruins of Persepolis , of which an account is given in a previous section , to prove the assertion : these , in point of extent , exceed all that Egypt or Greece ...
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... raised we are ignorant ; but their ruins sufficiently indicate the wealth and power that were employed upon them , as well as a considerably advanced state of the art . 148. The temple of Jupiter Olympius , the largest in the island ...
... raised we are ignorant ; but their ruins sufficiently indicate the wealth and power that were employed upon them , as well as a considerably advanced state of the art . 148. The temple of Jupiter Olympius , the largest in the island ...
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... raised after the Persian invasion ; for , according to Strabo ( lib . xiv . ) , all the sacred edifices of the Ionian cities , Ephesus excepted , were destroyed by Xerxes . Besides this octastyle temple , those of Apollo Didymaus , near ...
... raised after the Persian invasion ; for , according to Strabo ( lib . xiv . ) , all the sacred edifices of the Ionian cities , Ephesus excepted , were destroyed by Xerxes . Besides this octastyle temple , those of Apollo Didymaus , near ...
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