London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 237
is curious (asMr. Rick man observes, in a late paper inthe Archicologia) to remark the differentmode adopted by the French architectsof that period, to attain the same end.The arch in England grew graduallymore and more obtuse, until it finallybecame nothing more than two straightlines, with small… … J 23 12+ was never dispensed with until the final abandonment of thestyle. In France, on the contraiy, in order to gain height, the of Gothic Architecture. 225 elliptic, or three-centred, arch was adopted early in the sixteenthcentury, if not previously. This, as in the former case,…
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