| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1829 - 638 páginas
...the cavern and mound i* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent ; the Grecian is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic from the bower of trees. — The essential elementary parts of a building are those which contribute to its support, enclosure... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 páginas
...in the cavern and mound;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent; the Grecian is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic from the bower of trees. — The essential elementary parts of a building are those which contribute to its support, enclosure... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1829 - 584 páginas
...the cavern and mound ; * the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent; the Grecian, is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic, from the bower of trees. Elements. — The essential elementary parts of a building, are those which contribute to its support,... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1831 - 548 páginas
...the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent ; the Grecian, is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic, from the bower of trees. Elements. — The essential elementary parts of a building, are those which contribute to its support,... | |
| Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 548 páginas
...inhabitants to construct, the same form was kept up in after years by their more refined posterity. 3. Thus the Egyptian style of building derived its origin...appeared ; the rough trunk was transformed into the lofty column, and the natural vault of the cavern into the splendid pantheon. 4. The first nations who paid... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1840 - 412 páginas
...the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent ; the Grecian, is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic, from the bower of trees. Elements. — The essential elementary parts of a build* Wilkins's Vitruvius, p. xvii. ing, are those... | |
| W. M. Buchanan - 1846 - 768 páginas
...in the carern and mound ; the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent; the Grecian is derived from the wooden cabin ; and the Gothic from the bower of trees. AIH M'TTUAVE, from *{%*, chief, and rabs, a beam. In architecture, that part it1 the entablature which... | |
| Robert Armstrong (master of Madras coll.) - 1851 - 140 páginas
...passions ; candour our severe judgments. The Egyptian style of building, is derived from the cavern or mound ; the Chinese from the tent ; the Grecian from...wooden cabin ; and the Gothic from the bower of trees. IX. The poet says that anger is a short madness. Ovid says that it is a sort of pleasure to weep. Swift... | |
| 1851 - 490 páginas
...in the cavern and mound ; the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent; the Grecian is derived from the wooden cabin; and the Gothic, from the bower of trees." Destruction of ancient cities. — Recent discovery. The great works of many nations, whose architectural... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1853 - 402 páginas
...the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent ; the Grecian, is derived from the wooden cabin, and the Gothic, from the bower of trees. Elements. — The essential elementary parts of a build* Wilkins's Vitruvius, p. xvii. FOUNDATIONS.... | |
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