The Principles of Ornament

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Chapman and Hall, 1896 - 207 sider

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Side 45 - Straight lines are said to be equally distant from the centre of a circle, when the perpendiculars drawn to them from the centre are equal.
Side 176 - A rhombus is that which has all its sides equal, but its angles are not right angles.
Side 4 - Invention is one of the great marks of genius; but if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent; as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
Side 137 - His wit all seesaw between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss, And he himself one vile antithesis. Amphibious thing ! that acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord. Eve's...
Side 184 - ... from its angular points. Draw the circles circumscribing these two squares. 2. Draw a square of 2'75" side. Inscribe in it four equal circles, each touching two others and two sides of the square. 3. Draw an equilateral triangle of 1'5...
Side 184 - B -C 17. To inscribe a circle in a given triangle ABC. Bisect any two angles A and B, with the two lines AD, BD. From the intersection D, which will be the centre of the circle, draw the perpendiculars DB, DF, DG, and they will be the radii of the circle required.
Side xi - PREFACE IN the preface to the first edition of this book, I...
Side 139 - He had given it the name of the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet — Alpha and Omega — both the beginning and the end of India.
Side 176 - A Parallelogram is a four-sided figure which has its opposite sides parallel and equal.
Side 178 - A hexagon A heptagon An octagon A nonagon A decagon An undecagon A dodecagon six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve III. A figure of three sides and angles is called a triangle, and receives particular denominations from the relations of its sides and angles. 1. An equilateral triangle is that whose three sides are equal. 2. The height of a triangle is the length of a perpendicular...

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