The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... method of central heating . Mr Robert- son writes pleasantly , and much of what he says is sensible and to the point - the point , that is , of minor current practice . His illustrations are taken almost exclusively from post - war ...
... method of central heating . Mr Robert- son writes pleasantly , and much of what he says is sensible and to the point - the point , that is , of minor current practice . His illustrations are taken almost exclusively from post - war ...
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... methods of being so peculiar to itself . The object of a projecting stone window - sill , for instance , is to protect the wall below from the dripping of water , but I note that in the latest effort of the new architecture the window ...
... methods of being so peculiar to itself . The object of a projecting stone window - sill , for instance , is to protect the wall below from the dripping of water , but I note that in the latest effort of the new architecture the window ...
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... method of covering in a large floor space amazingly inefficient and wasteful . The comparison of classic to the palm tree as ' elegant but never emancipated ' and of Gothic to the cedar with its muscular force , constructive strength ...
... method of covering in a large floor space amazingly inefficient and wasteful . The comparison of classic to the palm tree as ' elegant but never emancipated ' and of Gothic to the cedar with its muscular force , constructive strength ...
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... methods of criticism one is in full agreement , but there is a flaw in his premises , and though it is not always easy to catch the drift of his sonorous sentences , his conclusion seems to me to be wilfully perverse . Mr Scott writes ...
... methods of criticism one is in full agreement , but there is a flaw in his premises , and though it is not always easy to catch the drift of his sonorous sentences , his conclusion seems to me to be wilfully perverse . Mr Scott writes ...
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... method . Angles of buildings which should be square are round . Pediments which should protect openings are broken in ... methods of architectural expression which were natural and inevitable to those who used them . Baroque is , on the ...
... method . Angles of buildings which should be square are round . Pediments which should protect openings are broken in ... methods of architectural expression which were natural and inevitable to those who used them . Baroque is , on the ...
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