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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 376

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. England discovered the ogive at thesame time that we did, if not some years earlier. Why,therefore, could she not, by making use of those power-ful faculties for generalization of which, from RogerBacon to Newton, she has given as great a proof as wehave from Abelard to Lamarck—why could she… … England (xiii Century). Litchfield Cathedral. 350 MEDIAEVAL ART the pavement of the cities as if to support the weightof the towers?^ It was because the Enghsh cathedral was principallythe luxury of a certain class of society, because it didnot translate one of those surges of idealism in whichthe…

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