An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and PracticalLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842 - 1089 Seiten |
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... edifices were necessary as soon as they had fixed upon a spot for the settlement of themselves and their families . 9. Chaldæa , Egypt , Phoenicia , and China are the first countries on record in which architecture , worthy the name ...
... edifices were necessary as soon as they had fixed upon a spot for the settlement of themselves and their families . 9. Chaldæa , Egypt , Phoenicia , and China are the first countries on record in which architecture , worthy the name ...
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... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
... edifice is another , in some respects similar , except that it is thirty - eight feet longer . It is marked N on the ... edifices on the banks of the Nile and those on the plain of Merdasht . In both , this member , forming , as it were ...
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... edifices : hence the pave- ments appear masses of marble , than which nothing more durable or beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal ...
... edifices : hence the pave- ments appear masses of marble , than which nothing more durable or beautiful can be conceived . No cement appears to have been used , but the stones seem to have been connected by cramps , whose removal ...
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... edifices only being built with burnt bricks : the roofs are mostly flat , having terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to the author above quoted , there were in his time within the walls ...
... edifices only being built with burnt bricks : the roofs are mostly flat , having terraces , whereon the inhabitants sleep during several months of the year . According to the author above quoted , there were in his time within the walls ...
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... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
... edifices are not of the highest antiquity , says ( 3rd Discourse ) , " that they prove an early connection be- tween India and Africa . The pyramids of Egypt , the colossal statues de- scribed by Pausanias and others , the Sphinx and ...
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