Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 274
ere? Do we not, on the other hand, beholdin this basement traces of an art primitive in every respect ? Doesnot the wall, laid in retreating courses ihattering), according to themethod pursued by ail primitive nations, indicate a very remote an-tiquity, and is not this enormous masonry, with its… … to tlie Herodian epocli ? If this angle is admitted to he of the âgeof Solomon or bis immédiate successors, the fragmentary arcli in Fig.28 miist be of the same epoch; for the stones, and the manner in 220 DISCOURSES ON AECHITECTURE. wliich tliey are eut and laid, are the same in this arcli as in…
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