 ... curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the general effect. There were no tablets or single stones, each representing separately and by itself an entire subject ,' but every ornament or combination is...  The Native Races [of the Pacific States]. - Page 190by Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1886Full view - About this book
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1842 - 660 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...ornament or combination is made up of separate stones, upon each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set in its place in the wall.... | |
 | 1842 - 630 lehte
...an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand,, aud, curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...by itself an entire subject ; but every ornament or comhination is made up of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was curved, and which... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 514 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 572 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | George Jones - 1843 - 500 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious; and the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...tablets or single stones, each representing separately, or by itself, an entire subject ; but every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones,... | |
 | 1854 - 744 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...entire subject; but every ornament or combination is mad« up of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1852 - 436 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...representing separately and by itself an entire subject ; out every ornament or combination is made up of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1854 - 652 lehte
...whole form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious: the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...striking than the general effect. There were no tablets on single stones, each representing separately and by itself an entire subject ; but every ornament... | |
 | John L. Stephens - 1871 - 592 lehte
...form an extraordinary mass of richness and complexity, and the effect is both grand and curious. And the construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar...subject ,' but every ornament or combination is made iip of separate stones, on each of which part of the subject was carved, and which was then set in... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1875 - 832 lehte
...this building are plastered. Stephens, Chamay, and Brasseur, Hist. Nat. Civ., torn, ii., pp. 578-88, give the tradition of the Dwarf, which gives this temple one of it» names. ' The construction of these ornaments is not less peculiar and striking than the general... | |
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