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Page 261
In discussing the ' greatest days of architecture , ' he tells us that ' the principles
and traditions connected therewith ' were lost at the end of the eighteenth century
, and have not been wholly recaptured ' ; but even more sweeping is bis ...
In discussing the ' greatest days of architecture , ' he tells us that ' the principles
and traditions connected therewith ' were lost at the end of the eighteenth century
, and have not been wholly recaptured ' ; but even more sweeping is bis ...
Page 264
The battle of styles ' belongs to the next century . The most significant event of the
Georgian period was the meteoric rise of the connoisseur , who thoroughly
consolidated his position as supreme arbiter in matters relatin to what he thought
...
The battle of styles ' belongs to the next century . The most significant event of the
Georgian period was the meteoric rise of the connoisseur , who thoroughly
consolidated his position as supreme arbiter in matters relatin to what he thought
...
Page 304
For centuries previously the problem of the coinage had received the attention of
Parliament , and useless and ineffectual ... That true law was discovered in
France by Oresme in the fourteenth century ; in Poland by Copernicus in the
sixteenth ...
For centuries previously the problem of the coinage had received the attention of
Parliament , and useless and ineffectual ... That true law was discovered in
France by Oresme in the fourteenth century ; in Poland by Copernicus in the
sixteenth ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, 257. köide |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1931 |
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