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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... rule for the amount of interference which is expedient or likely to be beneficial to the employer : no rule could be adapted to the infinite varieties of knowledge and ignorance . But the expediency of interfering more or less is one ...
... rule for the amount of interference which is expedient or likely to be beneficial to the employer : no rule could be adapted to the infinite varieties of knowledge and ignorance . But the expediency of interfering more or less is one ...
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... rule never to order alterations without consulting their employer . One who has done a good deal of church building once said to me , ' I have nothing to do with high church or low church my business is to design what people want , as ...
... rule never to order alterations without consulting their employer . One who has done a good deal of church building once said to me , ' I have nothing to do with high church or low church my business is to design what people want , as ...
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... rule , that it was to be 5 per cent . on the cost of the works executed from his design and under his superin- tendence , besides his actual travelling expenses , and 2 per cent . for plans and specification if the work was not executed ...
... rule , that it was to be 5 per cent . on the cost of the works executed from his design and under his superin- tendence , besides his actual travelling expenses , and 2 per cent . for plans and specification if the work was not executed ...
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... Rules . 23 Professional Practice and Charges of Architects , containing two folio pages of suggestions for increased charges , all on the percentage system , with an intimation that the 5 per cent . might be reduced in the single case ...
... Rules . 23 Professional Practice and Charges of Architects , containing two folio pages of suggestions for increased charges , all on the percentage system , with an intimation that the 5 per cent . might be reduced in the single case ...
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... rules contained in it , however tempting it may be . But when architects and other writers of books under the ... rule when somebody has objected to it . Since this was in type I am glad to see that Mr. Burges , an eminent member ...
... rules contained in it , however tempting it may be . But when architects and other writers of books under the ... rule when somebody has objected to it . Since this was in type I am glad to see that Mr. Burges , an eminent member ...
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