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Rude stone monuments in all countries; their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 125

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hese monu-ments admits of adouble interpretation.According to the usualand specious mode ofreasoning, the ruderform must be theearliest, and the architectural one copied from it. But this theoryI believe to be entirely at variance with the facts, as observed.The rudeness or elaboration of a… … Tomb of Isidorus, at Kbatoura. Syrie Centralc, by Comte Melchiorde Vogiie. Though this work was com-menced some ten years ago, and sub-scriptions obtained, it is still incomplete. No text hns yet been published, and nomaps, wliich makes the identification ofthe places singularly ditHcult. Chap.…

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