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A short history of architecture (1897)

Tuckerman, Arthur Lyman,1861-1892 · New York, C. Scribner's · leaf 198

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lemwas not one with Avhich the Gothic architects en-deavoured to grapple ; their attention was devotedto the improvement and embellishment of the typi-cal plan of structure, which custom and dogma hadprescribed as the most suitable and in accordancewith the needs of the liturgy. The plan was moreor… … PLAN OF RHEIMS CATHEDRAL. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. 135 dral, showing perhaps the most perfect arrangementof any in France, and the other, that of a typicalEnglish cathedral. The latter does not representany particular structure, but is a composition includ-ing all the usual divisions and connecting…

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