Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 73, Part 1F. Jefferies, 1803 The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs. |
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... VITRUVIUS , on entering upon the fubject of Grecian temples , very jufily obferves that without a strict attention to commenfurability , called in Greck avgrein , there can be neither beauty nor propriety in archi- tectural compofitions ...
... VITRUVIUS , on entering upon the fubject of Grecian temples , very jufily obferves that without a strict attention to commenfurability , called in Greck avgrein , there can be neither beauty nor propriety in archi- tectural compofitions ...
Page 232
... Vitruvian documents , which leave its height determinable , only by circutiflances prore natá . But for the bafes and cornices of ftylobates , though Vitruvius is filent , the fynme- tries the moderns have affigned are by no means ...
... Vitruvian documents , which leave its height determinable , only by circutiflances prore natá . But for the bafes and cornices of ftylobates , though Vitruvius is filent , the fynme- tries the moderns have affigned are by no means ...
Page 318
... Vitruvius took the hint from the fa- cred writings , and not from the docu ments of Grecian architects . But if he means by facred writings the Holy Bi- ble , it appears not where fwelled co- lumns are mentioned ; in both places where ...
... Vitruvius took the hint from the fa- cred writings , and not from the docu ments of Grecian architects . But if he means by facred writings the Holy Bi- ble , it appears not where fwelled co- lumns are mentioned ; in both places where ...
Page 319
... Vitruvius apophy- ges , from the axodvyn , a flying out . The height and projecture of this apo- phyge he leaves at difcretion ; as alio the cincture of the fhaft under it . Per- rault makes it 3 minutes high , and 4 projecture from the ...
... Vitruvius apophy- ges , from the axodvyn , a flying out . The height and projecture of this apo- phyge he leaves at difcretion ; as alio the cincture of the fhaft under it . Per- rault makes it 3 minutes high , and 4 projecture from the ...
Page 329
... Vitruvius took the hint from the fa cred writings , and not from the docu ments of Grecian architects . But if he means by facred writings the Holy Bi- ble , it appears not where fwelled co- Jumns are mentioned in both places where the ...
... Vitruvius took the hint from the fa cred writings , and not from the docu ments of Grecian architects . But if he means by facred writings the Holy Bi- ble , it appears not where fwelled co- Jumns are mentioned in both places where the ...
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