Miscellaneous Works, 4. köideD.A. Talboys, 1830 |
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Page 6
... Figures , perspectives , or pieces of history , are cer- tainly very ornamental , as they are drawn on many of the walls that would otherwise look too naked and uniform without them ; but , instead of these , one often sees the front of ...
... Figures , perspectives , or pieces of history , are cer- tainly very ornamental , as they are drawn on many of the walls that would otherwise look too naked and uniform without them ; but , instead of these , one often sees the front of ...
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... figure : so that it is no small check upon the aristocracy , and may be one reason why the Genoese senate carries it with greater moderation towards their subjects than the Ve- netian . It would have been well for the republic of Genoa ...
... figure : so that it is no small check upon the aristocracy , and may be one reason why the Genoese senate carries it with greater moderation towards their subjects than the Ve- netian . It would have been well for the republic of Genoa ...
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... figure in the history pieces , and several little images which make up the equipage of those that are larger . There are , indeed , a great multitude of such as are bigger than the life ; I VOL . IV . C reckoned above two hundred and ...
... figure in the history pieces , and several little images which make up the equipage of those that are larger . There are , indeed , a great multitude of such as are bigger than the life ; I VOL . IV . C reckoned above two hundred and ...
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... figures of the same metal . The history of our Saviour , or rather of the blessed virgin ( for it begins with her birth , and ends with her coronation in heaven , that of our Saviour coming in by way of episode ) , is finely cut in ...
... figures of the same metal . The history of our Saviour , or rather of the blessed virgin ( for it begins with her birth , and ends with her coronation in heaven , that of our Saviour coming in by way of episode ) , is finely cut in ...
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... figures : they show the gates of a church that St. Ambrose shut against the emperor Theodo- sius , as thinking him unfit to assist at divine service , till he had done some extraordinary penance for his barbarous massacreing the ...
... figures : they show the gates of a church that St. Ambrose shut against the emperor Theodo- sius , as thinking him unfit to assist at divine service , till he had done some extraordinary penance for his barbarous massacreing the ...
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