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... ornament , and proportion to construction , and of so manipulating construction that it shall not sin against beauty It is * Profession applies to the person who professes , and not to the thing professed , and will not , therefore ...
... ornament , and proportion to construction , and of so manipulating construction that it shall not sin against beauty It is * Profession applies to the person who professes , and not to the thing professed , and will not , therefore ...
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... ornaments and decorations for the service of the church . " The next class is designated " Chrystal , fancy glass , and stained glass , " and also runs from the secular to the sacred , from " drinking glasses " to " stained glass ...
... ornaments and decorations for the service of the church . " The next class is designated " Chrystal , fancy glass , and stained glass , " and also runs from the secular to the sacred , from " drinking glasses " to " stained glass ...
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... ornament , might gradually be made to pervade everything from our buildings to our tea spoons . " Let this be said as regards any fitting material , and it is perfectly true . But it is singular and noteworthy , that as regards iron it ...
... ornament , might gradually be made to pervade everything from our buildings to our tea spoons . " Let this be said as regards any fitting material , and it is perfectly true . But it is singular and noteworthy , that as regards iron it ...
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... ornament , popularly so called . But this I will say : it is not even a question of equal availability with brick and stone for building purposes , but a question of equal availability IN COMBINATION WITH an equal capacity for giving ...
... ornament , popularly so called . But this I will say : it is not even a question of equal availability with brick and stone for building purposes , but a question of equal availability IN COMBINATION WITH an equal capacity for giving ...
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... ornament . We want a handle for holding . It must not bristle with ornament so as to cut our fingers . But let the plate which merely covers the joining of the handle be as ornamental as you please , and the severest critic cannot ...
... ornament . We want a handle for holding . It must not bristle with ornament so as to cut our fingers . But let the plate which merely covers the joining of the handle be as ornamental as you please , and the severest critic cannot ...
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Página 7 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn at right angles to the touching line, the centre of the circle shall be in that line.
Página 36 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Página 10 - Architecture certainly possesses many principles in common with Poetry and Painting. Among those which may be reckoned as the first, is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas.
Página 2 - In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle, is greater than the squares on the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side...
Página 2 - THE angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another : and, if the equal sides be produced, the angles upon the other side of the base shall be equal.
Página 7 - IF a straight line be drawn parallel to one of the sides of a triangle, it shall cut the other sides, or those produced, proportionally; and if the sides, or the sides produced, be cut proportionally, the straight line which joins the points of section shall be parallel to the remaining side of the triangle...
Página 165 - That, when the access and use of light to and for any dwelling-house, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible...
Página 7 - To describe an isosceles triangle, having each of the angles at the base double of the third angle.
Página 170 - ... what principle can it be said that a person, by endeavouring to extend a right, must be held to have abandoned it ; when, so far from manifesting any such intention, he evinces his determination to retain it, and to acquire something beyond it? If under such circumstances abandonment of the right cannot be assumed, as little can it be said that it is a cause of forfeiture.
Página 10 - ... is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas. Thus, for instance, as we have naturally a veneration for antiquity, whatever building brings to our remembrance ancient customs and manners, such as the castles of the Barons of ancient chivalry, is sure to give this delight. Hence it is that towers and battlements...