5 ten earthquakes are recorded. It is in a better state of preservation than any other of equal age. It is remarkable that in this length of time the delicately poised con¬ not our purpose to repeat anything to be found in this intensely struction of the roof should only have required restorations… … ascendant — the chief subject of thought in times of peace — it is no futile attempt to explain a work of genius in terms of mechan¬ o f n t ^ joR ics and foot-rule measurements, after the manner of an architec¬ tural lecture, but it translates the ideas of the artist into the words Mosque of…
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