The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 57
the new Parthenon.—We ourselveshave repeated experience of the same stale of things in our own mediajvaledifices. But there seems no reason for preferring the small columns tothe large ones as having been those actually constructed in the new Par.thenon. If either set of remains are to be assigned… … But there are several general considerations of a very weighty naturewhich lead us irresistibly to choose the larger columns reaching from thepavement to the roof as the set actually belonging to the Parthenon. Inthe sixth volume of the work on the Museum collection of marbles, alreadyreferred to,…
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