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A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)

Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 265

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chitecture. Attimes it has shown wide depaitures from thecontemporary phases of the English type, bothin spirit and detail; but these departures hardlyconstitute a distinct style. Ditterences as greatseparate the Gothic schools of the Ile-de-Franceand Brittany, or of North and South Germany.The… … c<: HO o =s - i; ^ =* CD 03 +* *^ ■*- ao e1 SCOTLAND architecture has in gcncrjil been more Enghshthan it has been anytliing else. But it has beenEiiglisli witli a ditterence: more rugged andpicturesque, less consistent, less elegant; and,owing to scantiness of resources as nuicli as toany other…

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