The Spectator, Volume 5George Atherton Aitken G. Routledge, 1898 - English essays |
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Page 54
... figure even in the map of the world , although an account of it would have been thought fabulous , were not the wall itself still extant . We are obliged to devotion for the noblest build- ings that have adorned the several countries of ...
... figure even in the map of the world , although an account of it would have been thought fabulous , were not the wall itself still extant . We are obliged to devotion for the noblest build- ings that have adorned the several countries of ...
Page 56
... figures in architecture , there are none that have a greater air than the concave and the convex ; and we find in all ... figure of the rainbow does not contribute less to its magnificence , than the colours to its beauty , as it is very ...
... figures in architecture , there are none that have a greater air than the concave and the convex ; and we find in all ... figure of the rainbow does not contribute less to its magnificence , than the colours to its beauty , as it is very ...
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George Atherton Aitken. perhaps mistook the dash for a second figure , and by casting - up both together , composed out of them the figure 2. But this I shall leave to the learned , without determining anything in a matter of so great ...
George Atherton Aitken. perhaps mistook the dash for a second figure , and by casting - up both together , composed out of them the figure 2. But this I shall leave to the learned , without determining anything in a matter of so great ...
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