A Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University. Containing an Accurate Description of the Public Edifices, the Buildings in Each of the Colleges; ... To which are Added, Correct Descriptions of ... Blenheim, Ditchley, and Stow, ...Daniel Prince; John Rivington, and R. Baldwin, London, 1759 - 137 pages |
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... Figure , and many void Spaces are comprehended within thefe Limits , befides the numerous Courts and Gardens belonging to the refpective Colleges . The City , properly fo called , formerly furround- ed by an embattled Wall , with ...
... Figure , and many void Spaces are comprehended within thefe Limits , befides the numerous Courts and Gardens belonging to the refpective Colleges . The City , properly fo called , formerly furround- ed by an embattled Wall , with ...
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... Figure ⚫ recumbent at Dinner . Two Figures in Proceffion . C Four Figures , two with Phrygian Bonnets . Good Pieces of Cornifh - work , with Moldings of Ovolos , Bed - moulds , & c . A Tomb , the Husband and C Wife , with the Son ...
... Figure ⚫ recumbent at Dinner . Two Figures in Proceffion . C Four Figures , two with Phrygian Bonnets . Good Pieces of Cornifh - work , with Moldings of Ovolos , Bed - moulds , & c . A Tomb , the Husband and C Wife , with the Son ...
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... Figure . All these as big as the Life . A little Herculus tearing the Lion . Seven Buftos , an excellent one of Pindar . One faid to be of Olympias , I fancied it Lucretia . Two Buftos , one of the Grecian Venus . Diana in a hunting ...
... Figure . All these as big as the Life . A little Herculus tearing the Lion . Seven Buftos , an excellent one of Pindar . One faid to be of Olympias , I fancied it Lucretia . Two Buftos , one of the Grecian Venus . Diana in a hunting ...
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... Figures confift , First of Theology , with her Book of Seven Seals , imploring the Affiftance of Truth for the unfold- ing of it . On her Left - hand is the Mofaical Law veiled , with the Tables of Stone , to which she points with her ...
... Figures confift , First of Theology , with her Book of Seven Seals , imploring the Affiftance of Truth for the unfold- ing of it . On her Left - hand is the Mofaical Law veiled , with the Tables of Stone , to which she points with her ...
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... Figures ; Optics with the Perspective - Glafs ; Geometry with a Pair of Compaffes in her Left ; and a Table with Geometrical Figures in it , in her Right - Hand . And in the Square on the other Hand , Architecture embracing the Capital ...
... Figures ; Optics with the Perspective - Glafs ; Geometry with a Pair of Compaffes in her Left ; and a Table with Geometrical Figures in it , in her Right - Hand . And in the Square on the other Hand , Architecture embracing the Capital ...
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