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... effect . To make it still more elegant and picture - like , the head of the snake is carried up the southern promontory of Hackpen Hill , towards the village of West Kennet ; nay , the very name of the hill is derived from this ...
... effect . To make it still more elegant and picture - like , the head of the snake is carried up the southern promontory of Hackpen Hill , towards the village of West Kennet ; nay , the very name of the hill is derived from this ...
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... effect of the perspective , they appear to diminish very much towards the vertex . This monument has a second chamber , to which you enter on the right from the larger one just described . This is about 27 ft . by 20 , and 19 ft . high ...
... effect of the perspective , they appear to diminish very much towards the vertex . This monument has a second chamber , to which you enter on the right from the larger one just described . This is about 27 ft . by 20 , and 19 ft . high ...
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... effect is quite theatrical , and its perfect symmetry gives it the appearance of a work of great art , and of greater skill in composition than most other Indian works . Yet an examination of the details , and particularly of the system ...
... effect is quite theatrical , and its perfect symmetry gives it the appearance of a work of great art , and of greater skill in composition than most other Indian works . Yet an examination of the details , and particularly of the system ...
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... effect of time upon the edifices of the country , they still seem calculated for a duration equally long as that of the globe itself . The materials employed upon them were well adapted to insure a defiance of all that age could effect ...
... effect of time upon the edifices of the country , they still seem calculated for a duration equally long as that of the globe itself . The materials employed upon them were well adapted to insure a defiance of all that age could effect ...
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... effect . The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief , and are destitute of propor- tion ; and , when in groups , are devoid of senti- ment . Painting was another mode of decoration . The ...
... effect . The figures that are sculptured on the walls of the temples are mostly in low relief , and are destitute of propor- tion ; and , when in groups , are devoid of senti- ment . Painting was another mode of decoration . The ...
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1-inch deal 15th century arch architect architecture architrave axis balusters base bead butt bead flush breadth bricks building called cathedral centre of gravity century church circle circular circumference colour columns construction Corinthian order cube Cubic Foot curve described diameter divided divisor Doric order draw edge edifices ellipsis entablature equal equation erected example extrados feet foot fraction half height Hence horizontal inches intercolumniations iron joints length lime limestone moulded multiplied nave oolite ornaments ovolo palace panels parallel parallelogram perpendicular piece piers placed plane portico Prop proportion pyramid quantity radius rectangle right angles right line Roman Roman architecture roof sandstone scantlings side sofite solid square root stone style subtract supposed surface tangent temple thickness timber tower transepts triangle vault vertical Vitruvius voussoirs wainscot walls whence whereof width
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Page 6 - In taking two stations having the same value, the one to the north and the other to the south of...
Page 316 - The angle at the centre of a circle is double of the angle at the circumference upon the same base, that is, upon the same part of the circumference.
Page 16 - The western face, which is the least elevated, is the most interesting on account of the appearance of building it presents. Near the summit of it appears a low wall, with interruptions, built of unburnt bricks, mixed up with chopped straw or reeds, and cemented with clay-mortar of great thickness, having between every layer a layer of reeds ; and on the north side are also some vestiges of a similar construction.
Page 375 - As 360 is to the degrees in the arc of the sector, so is the area of the whole circle to the area of the sector.
Page 17 - ... in breadth, diminishing in thickness to the top, which is broken and irregular, and rent by a large fissure extending through a third of its height.
Page ix - Vive, vale ; si quid novisti rectius istis, Candidus impertí ; si non, his utere mecum.
Page 51 - Twenty-five years, and above three millions sterling, were employed by the founder: his liberal taste invited the artists of Constantinople, the most skilful sculptors and architects of the age; and the buildings were sustained or adorned by twelve hundred columns of Spanish and African, of Greek and Italian marble. The hall of audience was...
Page 372 - PROBLEM I. To find the area of a parallelogram, whether it be a square, a rectangle, a rhombus, or a rhomboides.
Page 199 - The taste of all these stately mansions was that bastard style which intervened between Gothic and Grecian architecture; or which perhaps was the style that had been invented for the houses of the nobility, when they first ventured on the settlement of the kingdom after the termination of the quarrel between the Roses, to abandon their fortified dungeons, and consult convenience and magnificence...
Page 216 - What the back-ground is in painting, in architecture is the real ground on which the building is erected ; and no architect took greater care that his work should not appear crude and hard, that is, that it did not abruptly start out of the ground without expectation or preparation.