Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Volume 5The Institute, 1898 |
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... Nature in ornament . Windows . FREEMAN ( E. A . ) - Sketches of travel in and Maine . GALTON ( Sir D . ) - Healthy dwellings . 80. Lond . 1894 80. Lond . 1896 80. Lond . 1897 Normandy 80. Lond . 1897 2nd ed . 80. Lond . 1896 8o . Lond ...
... Nature in ornament . Windows . FREEMAN ( E. A . ) - Sketches of travel in and Maine . GALTON ( Sir D . ) - Healthy dwellings . 80. Lond . 1894 80. Lond . 1896 80. Lond . 1897 Normandy 80. Lond . 1897 2nd ed . 80. Lond . 1896 8o . Lond ...
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... Nature , he overlooked the supreme importance of how the end was attained ; so that the old adage " Let justice be done though everything perish " is a more useful maxim for mankind to follow than to attain its object by wickedness . We ...
... Nature , he overlooked the supreme importance of how the end was attained ; so that the old adage " Let justice be done though everything perish " is a more useful maxim for mankind to follow than to attain its object by wickedness . We ...
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... Nature's laws and applying them to our own wants . We must , too , endeavour to discover what in the heavens above , the earth beneath , or the waters under the earth we and our employers love to see embodied in our works , and how that ...
... Nature's laws and applying them to our own wants . We must , too , endeavour to discover what in the heavens above , the earth beneath , or the waters under the earth we and our employers love to see embodied in our works , and how that ...
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... Nature perfectly adapts all her living works to the actions they have to perform without waste of material ; and while some are exquisitely beautiful , some majestic , and some comic , others are commonplace , and some are repulsive ...
... Nature perfectly adapts all her living works to the actions they have to perform without waste of material ; and while some are exquisitely beautiful , some majestic , and some comic , others are commonplace , and some are repulsive ...
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... Nature's , fitted to fulfil its duties as perfectly as possible without waste of material , and to make it properly tell the tale of its purpose or purposes , and that if sculpture and painting can be afforded , he is to use them to ...
... Nature's , fitted to fulfil its duties as perfectly as possible without waste of material , and to make it properly tell the tale of its purpose or purposes , and that if sculpture and painting can be afforded , he is to use them to ...
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Página 7 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Página 471 - Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low-vaulted past ! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea ! OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Página 308 - Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of metaphysic begs defence, And metaphysic calls for aid on sense ! See mystery to mathematics fly ! In vain ! they gaze, turn giddy, rave, and die.
Página 472 - In the old Tuscan town stands Giotto's tower, The lily of Florence blossoming in stone, — A vision, a delight, and a desire, — The builder's perfect and centennial flower, That in the night of ages bloomed alone, But wanting still the glory of the spire.
Página 259 - To-day I saw the dragon-fly Come from the wells where he did lie. 'An inner impulse rent the veil Of his old husk; from head to tail Came out clear plates of sapphire mail. 'He dried his wings: like gauze they grew; Thro' crofts and pastures wet with dew A living flash of light he flew.
Página 8 - Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new : That which they have done but earnest of the things that they shall do...
Página 262 - No sculptur'd marble here, nor pompous lay, "No storied urn nor animated bust;" This simple stone directs pale SCOTIA'S way To pour her sorrows o'er her POET'S dust.
Página 8 - ... and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded, that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island.
Página 63 - All such plans and drawings shall be drawn to a scale of not less than one-eighth of an inch to the foot, on paper or cloth, in ink, or by some process that will not fade or obliterate. All distances and dimensions shall be accurately figured, and drawings made explicit and complete, showing the entire sewerage and drain pipes and location of all plumbing fixtures within such building.
Página 329 - Imagination fondly stoops to trace The parlour splendours of that festive place : The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnished clock that clicked behind the door: The chest contrived a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day...