Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 298
t stood, too magnificent in its de-mands for the generations of those times to complete.They beheld an incomplete structure, greater unfinishedthan it could be made with their means and capabilities.Three centuries it remained untouched except as decayand destruction threatened its ruin. But our… … CATHEDRAlv OF COI^OGNe. 276 Ecclesiastical Architecture. It is a Christian church full of majesty, so great that,unfinished, men with lesser aims than its originatordared not undertake to bring so colossal an enterpriseto completion; so beautiful in its promise that mendared not tear it down.…
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