An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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Page 205
... direction of travellers during the night . This immense building was enriched with friezes and entablatures , most profusely sculptured ; it is reported to have been erected at the expense of 29,000L , and to have occupied , with its ...
... direction of travellers during the night . This immense building was enriched with friezes and entablatures , most profusely sculptured ; it is reported to have been erected at the expense of 29,000L , and to have occupied , with its ...
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... direction of his taste by that individual , much more would have been accomplished , but for the heavy and disastrous wars which occurred during his reign , and the load of debt with which it became burthened . The works of Chambers are ...
... direction of his taste by that individual , much more would have been accomplished , but for the heavy and disastrous wars which occurred during his reign , and the load of debt with which it became burthened . The works of Chambers are ...
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... direction until the establishment of renaissance art . M. Gally Knight , who investigated the indications presented in the great work published by Messrs . Hittorff and Zanth , says that " various novelties were attempted ; sometimes ...
... direction until the establishment of renaissance art . M. Gally Knight , who investigated the indications presented in the great work published by Messrs . Hittorff and Zanth , says that " various novelties were attempted ; sometimes ...
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... direction . 1135. The level surface ABCD would have for projection on vertical planes the right lines ab , b'c ' , because that surface is in the same plane as the lines of projection . 1136. The inclined surface EFGH will give on ...
... direction . 1135. The level surface ABCD would have for projection on vertical planes the right lines ab , b'c ' , because that surface is in the same plane as the lines of projection . 1136. The inclined surface EFGH will give on ...
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... direction AD , will , besides the weight itself , have to sustain the effort of the pow that draws it out of the vertical AB . 1245. If the direction of the horizontal force be prolonged till it meets the vertic which would be in the ...
... direction AD , will , besides the weight itself , have to sustain the effort of the pow that draws it out of the vertical AB . 1245. If the direction of the horizontal force be prolonged till it meets the vertic which would be in the ...
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