An Encyclopædia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, 1888 - 1443 Seiten |
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... materials to Dædalus ; but only a few of these were known even in the time of Homer , who confines himself to the hatchet with ... material , at length were substituted bricks , stone , marble , and the like ; and edifices were reared of ...
... materials to Dædalus ; but only a few of these were known even in the time of Homer , who confines himself to the hatchet with ... material , at length were substituted bricks , stone , marble , and the like ; and edifices were reared of ...
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... material , for the climate does not favour the growth of timber ; hence stone , marble , and granite were thus forced into use ; and we know that , besides the facility of transport by means of canals , as early as the time of Joseph ...
... material , for the climate does not favour the growth of timber ; hence stone , marble , and granite were thus forced into use ; and we know that , besides the facility of transport by means of canals , as early as the time of Joseph ...
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... materials are scanty ; the monuments , though once stupendous , still more so . " If ever , " says Keith , in his Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion , " there was a city that seemed to bid defiance to any predictions of its ...
... materials are scanty ; the monuments , though once stupendous , still more so . " If ever , " says Keith , in his Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion , " there was a city that seemed to bid defiance to any predictions of its ...
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... material , which had seemingly been suspended to some part of the skeleton . On the western side of the river there is not the slightest vestige of ruins ex- cepting opposite the mass of Amran , where there are two small mounds of earth ...
... material , which had seemingly been suspended to some part of the skeleton . On the western side of the river there is not the slightest vestige of ruins ex- cepting opposite the mass of Amran , where there are two small mounds of earth ...
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... material which their cedar forests afforded , dexterous in joinery , so the Egyptians received an im- pulse in the style of their works from an abundance of the stone of all sorts which their quarries produced . Subterranean apartments ...
... material which their cedar forests afforded , dexterous in joinery , so the Egyptians received an im- pulse in the style of their works from an abundance of the stone of all sorts which their quarries produced . Subterranean apartments ...
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