Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. (1899)
Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910 · Philadelphia, Pa., A. J. Holman & Co · leaf 190
Berlin, by Wallot, and the Palais deJustice at Brussels, by Polaert, being colossal in mass and clumsy in detail.Many of the private houses designed in the Italian Renaissance Avere veryelegant and attractive, but within the past decade there has been a woefuldeterioration in the character of both… … 176 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY private capital to the improvement of the domestic conditions of the laboring class. In Austria, Vienna has developed wonderfully since the days of MariaTheresa. Hie classic Parliament House by Hansen, in L843, is one of the mostdelightful of its kind…
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