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... measured , and drew , and reasoned , and reflected , with joy and love for the subject , and with the patience and fire , which kindled emulation in the whole group . You may well imagine how they investigated the hidden secrets of ...
... measured , and drew , and reasoned , and reflected , with joy and love for the subject , and with the patience and fire , which kindled emulation in the whole group . You may well imagine how they investigated the hidden secrets of ...
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... measures adopted in order to prove to Parliament and to the British Public the impolicy of preserving the Exhibition Building of 1862. As soon as notice was given in the House of Commons , that it was the intention of Government to ...
... measures adopted in order to prove to Parliament and to the British Public the impolicy of preserving the Exhibition Building of 1862. As soon as notice was given in the House of Commons , that it was the intention of Government to ...
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... measure to attempt to convert it into a permanent building for which it was not originally designed , its distribution being irremediably deficient , its construction unstable , its materials unsound . Consequently that the scheme for ...
... measure to attempt to convert it into a permanent building for which it was not originally designed , its distribution being irremediably deficient , its construction unstable , its materials unsound . Consequently that the scheme for ...
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... measure his guilt , or to make allowance for redeeming or palliating circumstances , but will crush , tear , and shake the culprit to pieces with unflinching ferocity . Very far indeed from this was 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROFESSIONAL ...
... measure his guilt , or to make allowance for redeeming or palliating circumstances , but will crush , tear , and shake the culprit to pieces with unflinching ferocity . Very far indeed from this was 22 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE PROFESSIONAL ...
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... measurements of the detail and treatment , to make it probable that the one was a few years earlier than the other . The difference consists not so much in the treatment of the window tracery , as in the splays of the jambs , the ...
... measurements of the detail and treatment , to make it probable that the one was a few years earlier than the other . The difference consists not so much in the treatment of the window tracery , as in the splays of the jambs , the ...
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Page 7 - I expect neither profit nor general fame by my writings," says Coleridge, in the preface to his poems ; " and I consider myself as having been amply repaid without either. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has soothed my afflictions ; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments ; it has endeared solitude, and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Page 9 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares on the whole line, and on one of the parts, are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square on the other part. Let the straight line AB be divided into any two parts in the point C. Then the squares on AB, BC shall be equal to twice the rectangle AB, BC, together with the square on A C.
Page xvii - On the Egyptian Obelisks in Rome, and Monoliths, as Ornaments of Great Cities ; read at the Ordinary General Meeting of the Royal Institute of British Architects, May 31. 1858, by the Rev. Richard Burgess, BD Followed by remarks on the application of the Entasis to the Obelisk, by John Bell, Esq. Together with discussions upon the whole subject by members of the Institute.
Page 136 - DAY set on Norham's castled steep, And Tweed's fair river, broad and deep, And Cheviot's mountains lone : The battled towers, the donjon keep, The loophole grates, where captives weep, 5 The flanking walls that round it sweep, In yellow lustre shone.
Page 125 - ... visited the rooms, and, in short, made a careful examination of the whole place ; but so perfect was every street, every house, every room, that I almost fancied I was in a dream, wandering alone in this city of the dead, seeing all perfect, yet not hearing a sound.
Page 20 - ... réglés par le Code civil, et ceux qui peuvent réclamer des servitudes résultant des titres mêmes du propriétaire ou d'autres actes dans lesquels il serait intervenu, sinon il restera seul chargé envers eux des indemnités que ces derniers pourront réclamer.
Page 9 - To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line, from a given point in the same.
Page 139 - There can be little doubt that King Henry III., during his sojourns in France, became enamoured of this arrangement, which in its perfected form he may have seen in course of being carried out at Amiens, Beauvais, Rheims, and elsewhere. It would naturally strike him as well suited to the reconstruction of the eastern portion of a church already possessing an apse with a continuous surrounding aisle. Whether this project had been formed when the Lady-chapel was built in 1220, it is impossible to ascertain....
Page 9 - Triangles upon equal bases, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Page 125 - The houses were some of them very large, consisting usually of three rooms on the ground floor, and two on the first story, the stairs being formed of large stones built into the house-walls, and leading up outside. The doors were, as usual, of Jer. xlviii. stone : sometimes there were folding-doors, and some of them were highly ornamented.