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... cost : although the copies hereafter issued would not be sold in parts - only in bound volumes as before stated . The price of the present volume to non - members would be one guinea , and to members who wished for one additional copy ...
... cost : although the copies hereafter issued would not be sold in parts - only in bound volumes as before stated . The price of the present volume to non - members would be one guinea , and to members who wished for one additional copy ...
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... cost , and erected houses of a palatial character . Had his councils been listened to , and if the Government had acted upon the enlarged views of metropolitan distribution , which he often discussed with me , tracts of the suburbs ...
... cost , and erected houses of a palatial character . Had his councils been listened to , and if the Government had acted upon the enlarged views of metropolitan distribution , which he often discussed with me , tracts of the suburbs ...
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... cost of £ 80,000 . to the nation - and even the creation of his own prolific genius attributed to another eminent in the art , but who was too generous to allow such a misstatement without the directest denial - and then again the ...
... cost of £ 80,000 . to the nation - and even the creation of his own prolific genius attributed to another eminent in the art , but who was too generous to allow such a misstatement without the directest denial - and then again the ...
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... cost than the natural stone itself ? Why is it that the best beds of Bath , the most enduring of Portland , such as Sir Christopher Wren used at St. Paul's , cannot be extracted from the quarry and conveyed to London at less expense ...
... cost than the natural stone itself ? Why is it that the best beds of Bath , the most enduring of Portland , such as Sir Christopher Wren used at St. Paul's , cannot be extracted from the quarry and conveyed to London at less expense ...
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... call this measure ) a preference to the decimal foot , and in every respect a preference to the metre . ON THE PARIS STREET IMPROVEMENTS , AND THEIR COST . A FEW WORDS IN FAVOUR OF THE DECIMAL SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT . 47.
... call this measure ) a preference to the decimal foot , and in every respect a preference to the metre . ON THE PARIS STREET IMPROVEMENTS , AND THEIR COST . A FEW WORDS IN FAVOUR OF THE DECIMAL SYSTEM OF MEASUREMENT . 47.
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Página 5 - 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.
Página 7 - 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.
Página xv - 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.
Página 134 - 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.
Página 123 - ... 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.
Página 18 - ... 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.
Página 7 - To draw a straight line at right angles to a given straight line, from a given point in the same.
Página 137 - 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....
Página 7 - Triangles upon equal bases, and between the same parallels, are equal to one another.
Página 123 - 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.