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... English architecture , and for considering the condition of our national architecture itself as it may be mended or the reverse , according as this Institute acts with unity , vigour , and wisdom . I am ambitious for the honour and ...
... English architecture , and for considering the condition of our national architecture itself as it may be mended or the reverse , according as this Institute acts with unity , vigour , and wisdom . I am ambitious for the honour and ...
Side 10
... English law , fearlessly and solemnly administered by English judges without spite and without favour , unbiassed by Crown or mob , or armed battalion . If the building shall fall short of this ideal , great will be the scandal and the ...
... English law , fearlessly and solemnly administered by English judges without spite and without favour , unbiassed by Crown or mob , or armed battalion . If the building shall fall short of this ideal , great will be the scandal and the ...
Side 12
... English Architects could do . He hoped this Committee would be established soon , and that our architects would be prepared to enter into that great international contest , which they would have to sustain against the architects of the ...
... English Architects could do . He hoped this Committee would be established soon , and that our architects would be prepared to enter into that great international contest , which they would have to sustain against the architects of the ...
Side 15
... English public in the great Industrial Exhibition of 1862. I then endeavoured to criticise , in a cursory sketch of the chief objects displayed , the especial failings and imperfections on the one hand , and the successes , so far as ...
... English public in the great Industrial Exhibition of 1862. I then endeavoured to criticise , in a cursory sketch of the chief objects displayed , the especial failings and imperfections on the one hand , and the successes , so far as ...
Side 31
... English period ; for purity of line , boldness of treatment , and fine effects of light and shade , it stands pre - eminent . It is , however very conventional , and in the present day there is great danger in foliage becoming too ...
... English period ; for purity of line , boldness of treatment , and fine effects of light and shade , it stands pre - eminent . It is , however very conventional , and in the present day there is great danger in foliage becoming too ...
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Side 7 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn at right angles to the touching line, the centre of the circle shall be in that line.
Side 36 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Side 10 - Architecture certainly possesses many principles in common with Poetry and Painting. Among those which may be reckoned as the first, is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas.
Side 2 - In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from either of the acute angles to the opposite side produced, the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle, is greater than the squares on the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side...
Side 2 - THE angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another : and, if the equal sides be produced, the angles upon the other side of the base shall be equal.
Side 7 - IF a straight line be drawn parallel to one of the sides of a triangle, it shall cut the other sides, or those produced, proportionally; and if the sides, or the sides produced, be cut proportionally, the straight line which joins the points of section shall be parallel to the remaining side of the triangle...
Side 165 - That, when the access and use of light to and for any dwelling-house, workshop, or other building, shall have been actually enjoyed therewith for the full period of twenty years without interruption, the right thereto shall be deemed absolute and indefeasible...
Side 7 - To describe an isosceles triangle, having each of the angles at the base double of the third angle.
Side 170 - ... what principle can it be said that a person, by endeavouring to extend a right, must be held to have abandoned it ; when, so far from manifesting any such intention, he evinces his determination to retain it, and to acquire something beyond it? If under such circumstances abandonment of the right cannot be assumed, as little can it be said that it is a cause of forfeiture.
Side 10 - ... is, that of affecting the imagination by means of association of ideas. Thus, for instance, as we have naturally a veneration for antiquity, whatever building brings to our remembrance ancient customs and manners, such as the castles of the Barons of ancient chivalry, is sure to give this delight. Hence it is that towers and battlements...