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The habitations of man in all ages (1876)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Bucknall, Benjamin, d. 1895 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Company · leaf 53

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4 THE YELLOW RACE. 29 companion. "Art thou then a God, to promise health and long life? " "Do not interfere with me ; this deformed creature will be satisfied with us, and I shall have seen what I am desirous of seeing." The house of the fat Fau (the name given to him by his servants), surrounded… … Plan of the Primitive Chinese House. — Fig. 9. This porch P, very low and deep, gave entrance into a central room A, lofty, and lighted near the wooden roof which covered it, by openings furnished with a trellis-work of canes. On this room opened two side rooms B, very much less in height, and a…

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