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... followed . I will not stop to argue whether Elissa was , as the latest Phoenician learning teaches us , a goddess degraded into a queen ; I am still less called on to disprove the tale that she cut an ox's hide into strips , like the ...
... followed . I will not stop to argue whether Elissa was , as the latest Phoenician learning teaches us , a goddess degraded into a queen ; I am still less called on to disprove the tale that she cut an ox's hide into strips , like the ...
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... followed here as everywhere else ; the Italianizing influence shows itself in furniture and other ornaments before it touches archi- tecture proper . But there are other things to see in the new nave . There is a triptych which , if we ...
... followed here as everywhere else ; the Italianizing influence shows itself in furniture and other ornaments before it touches archi- tecture proper . But there are other things to see in the new nave . There is a triptych which , if we ...
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... followed , is Roman only geographically ; it is in truth a Greek building on Roman soil . In the outsides of theatres and amphitheatres the columns or pilasters are of hardly more importance than those decorative columns and pilasters ...
... followed , is Roman only geographically ; it is in truth a Greek building on Roman soil . In the outsides of theatres and amphitheatres the columns or pilasters are of hardly more importance than those decorative columns and pilasters ...
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... followed in that age in founding a great city in a favoured province , in cases where a definite plan could be freely carried out , and where the creators of the new town were not hampered by older works or older traditions . We are at ...
... followed in that age in founding a great city in a favoured province , in cases where a definite plan could be freely carried out , and where the creators of the new town were not hampered by older works or older traditions . We are at ...
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... followed its shape and dimensions . Towns of this class show a walled enclosure of much greater size , but of much more irregular shape , than those which were in their be- ginning strictly castra or chesters . We might say that Rome ...
... followed its shape and dimensions . Towns of this class show a walled enclosure of much greater size , but of much more irregular shape , than those which were in their be- ginning strictly castra or chesters . We might say that Rome ...
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