Whatever rude structure the climate and materials of any country have obliged its early inhabitants to adopt for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined, and opulent posterity.... Wells's Natural Philosophy - Seite 119von David Ames Wells - 1858Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent;... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 644 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent;... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1829 - 584 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined, and opulent posterity. Thus, the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound ; * the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent;... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1831 - 596 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus, the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent... | |
| Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1836 - 496 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the як structure, with all its prominent features, has bem afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus the Egyptian style of buildiiur haste origin in the cavern and mound ';* the Chinese ardrr tecture is modelled from tlie... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1840 - 412 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus, the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent... | |
| Miss Ludlow - 1851 - 486 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern ' and mound ; the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent;... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1853 - 402 Seiten
...for their temporary shelter, the same structure, with all its prominent features, has been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus, the Egyptian style of building has its origin in the cavern and mound ;* the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent... | |
| David Ames Wells - 1856 - 598 Seiten
...adopt for temporary shelter. These structures, with all their prominent features, have been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus,...Egyptian style of architecture had its origin in the cacern or mound ; the Chinese architecture is -modelled from the f '.,•'. th» Grecian is modelled... | |
| David Ames Wells - 1857 - 334 Seiten
...adopt for temporary shelter. These structures with all their prominent features have been afterwards kept up by their refined and opulent posterity. Thus...in the cavern or mound; the Chinese architecture is modelled from the tent; the Grecian is modelled from the wooden cabin ; and the Gothic from the bower... | |
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