The Quarterly Review, 246. köideWilliam 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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... practice . His illustrations are taken almost exclusively from post - war buildings , and though it is to be presumed that these buildings are efficient , with the exception of some half a dozen or so , they are exceedingly unattractive ...
... practice . His illustrations are taken almost exclusively from post - war buildings , and though it is to be presumed that these buildings are efficient , with the exception of some half a dozen or so , they are exceedingly unattractive ...
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... practice than all the rhetoric in the world , and we shall never get to the root of the matter in æsthetic till we prefer the dry light of the intellect to the vague aspirations of the sentimentalist . 6 The most formidable claim of our ...
... practice than all the rhetoric in the world , and we shall never get to the root of the matter in æsthetic till we prefer the dry light of the intellect to the vague aspirations of the sentimentalist . 6 The most formidable claim of our ...
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... practice of architects in the 17th century . In view of existing and authentic work- ing drawings by Inigo Jones and Wren , it is absurd to say that those architects were able to build without anything that could be called a detailed ...
... practice of architects in the 17th century . In view of existing and authentic work- ing drawings by Inigo Jones and Wren , it is absurd to say that those architects were able to build without anything that could be called a detailed ...
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... practice , and they appear to be in favour of it on the ground that authors and savants in the same line habitually review each other , ' and that it is only in this way that the public can obtain really competent criticism . The cases ...
... practice , and they appear to be in favour of it on the ground that authors and savants in the same line habitually review each other , ' and that it is only in this way that the public can obtain really competent criticism . The cases ...
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... practice by reference to the optical refine- ments of the Parthenon . The object of those refine- ments was to correct optical illusions . For instance , if a long , straight line seemed to the eye to sag , the Greeks gave it an ...
... practice by reference to the optical refine- ments of the Parthenon . The object of those refine- ments was to correct optical illusions . For instance , if a long , straight line seemed to the eye to sag , the Greeks gave it an ...
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