London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 42
claimed the homage of the arts as well as of the arms of a world.The variations which Roman taste introduced into the systembecame most conspicuous in the combinations which succeededto the discovery of the principle of the arch; a discovery notimprobably suggested by the forms which masonry… … were precisely such as mighthave been anticipated fromthe character of a nation,whose martial pursuits ren-dered it much more suscep-tible of impression from thevast in composition, and theexuberant in ornament, thanfrom the chai-ms of simplicityand minute delicacy. Hencethe preference given to…
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