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An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)

Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 60

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entering parts, of the use of the arch, of theinclined roof, and of all deviation froiri those shades of different developments, whicliimpart character to a work of art, generated the monotony, the subject of our complaint.It cannot be denied that in those arts which have nature for their model,… … 40 HISTORY OF ARCIilTECTUHE. Bi.ox I, tlic foriner. It was impossible that tlic abstruct imitation of nature, wbicb constitutesHhnost the essence of architecture, which is founded upon the most relined observations ofthe impressions of different objects on our senses, which indicates numbevless…

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