Rudimentary architecture: for the use of beginners. The history and description of the styles of architecture of various countries, from the earliest to the present period .. (1874)
Bury, Thomas Talbot, 1811-1877 · London, J. Weale · leaf 171
serve tosupport the superiiicumhentmass. To produce the great-est effect by the smallestmeans is one of the firstqualifications of an architect,and the similarity of fourchurches aftbrds a criterionof their respective merits asto the least amount of solidfor area.* Wren lived to completeSt. Pauls… … SI QU.ERAS MONUMENTUM CIRCUMSPICE. To describe the works of Sir Christopher Wren would oc-cupy much space we must therefore content ourselves with anotice of some of his principal buildings. Besides the greatwork just mentioned, he designed or executed most of thepublic edifices of his time: that…
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