The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 323
from 4i diametersin height to 9. To what proportions the architects of antiquitymight have drawn out their supports, had metal entered into theirconstruction as largely and familiarly as it now does into ours, itwould be treading on dangerous ground to offer a conjecture; butthat they conceived,… … Fcestum. Parthenon. Cora. other remains of ancient art. Nor is the architecture which thebrush has perpetuated on the walls of antiquity, to be regarded as amere capriccio. Throughout these decorations a great portion of theframework is architectural, and presents an assemblage of member*analogous…
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