A Book on Building, Civil and Ecclesiastical: With the Theory of Domes, and of the Great Pyramid; and a Catalogue of Sizes of Churches and Other Large Buildings |
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... give much trouble . Best way of laying them Slates , blue and grey Flat Tiles ; Tie - rods Mansard Roofs . Spouts , Eaves , and Gutters Gutters on Stone v . Wood . Tanks and Cisterns Proper Shape for Tanks in Ground Freezing and ...
... give much trouble . Best way of laying them Slates , blue and grey Flat Tiles ; Tie - rods Mansard Roofs . Spouts , Eaves , and Gutters Gutters on Stone v . Wood . Tanks and Cisterns Proper Shape for Tanks in Ground Freezing and ...
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... give you . All this is so plausible that it is no wonder that all sorts of public bodies are in the habit of accepting it as conclusive . But experience tells another tale , and it is not merely singular but significant , as I said just ...
... give you . All this is so plausible that it is no wonder that all sorts of public bodies are in the habit of accepting it as conclusive . But experience tells another tale , and it is not merely singular but significant , as I said just ...
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... give a choice between great and small architects , the practical effect of it is often exactly the contrary , and in the worst possible way : viz . to exclude the great ones altogether , except from very great works ; and after these ...
... give a choice between great and small architects , the practical effect of it is often exactly the contrary , and in the worst possible way : viz . to exclude the great ones altogether , except from very great works ; and after these ...
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... gives the impression of what I called the babyhouse style to the whole , instead of deceiving the eye into the belief that it is large be- cause of the multitude of parts , as it does in a drawing . Not that I defend the opposite error ...
... gives the impression of what I called the babyhouse style to the whole , instead of deceiving the eye into the belief that it is large be- cause of the multitude of parts , as it does in a drawing . Not that I defend the opposite error ...
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... give , as to alterations and everything , and to resolve that he is on no account to be employed as architect himself ; for I have known even that happen after another had been chosen , judiciously or not , upon the competition ...
... give , as to alterations and everything , and to resolve that he is on no account to be employed as architect himself ; for I have known even that happen after another had been chosen , judiciously or not , upon the competition ...
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