Quarterly papers on architecture, ed. by J. Weale, Volume 1John Weale 1844 |
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Abbey Abbey of Villers adorned ancient Antwerp apsis architect archivolts Audenaerde balustrade Bavon beautiful belfry Belgium borax Brabant Bruges Brussels building built cathedral chancel chapel choir Church of St colour construction Councillor Count of Flanders crockets crucible cylindrical columns Dame decorated door edifice elegant engraving entrance erected exist exterior façade feet fifteenth century flamboyant flanked flux flying buttresses front gables gallery Ghent glass Gothic ground Gudule hall height Hôtel Hôtel de Ville inclosed interior laid lancet windows latter Liège litharge Louvain magnificent Malines mouldings mullions nave octagonal ogival ornamented oxide painted parish church Pays Bas period pierced pinnacles placed Plate pointed arches pointed architecture porch portion primary pointed style quatrefoils rebuilt remarkable roof rows secondary pointed style semicircular arches sixteenth Soignies south aisle square tower stone style of architecture surmounted tertiary pointed style Tournay tracery transepts trefoiled triforium turrets vaults walls wooden spire Ypres
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Page 32 - And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.
Page 12 - Christian faith, recourse was had, say her monkish historians, to the assistance of SATAN himself, who, in the shape of a dragon, swallowed her alive, though she speedily burst from that horrid confinement, and effected her escape. So miraculous a circumstance naturally pointed out the peculiar powers over which Providence designed her to have empire ; for who could so well be capable of aiding the struggles of the yet unborn infant, as one who had extricated herself, even from the body of the arch...
Page 35 - J are, doubtless, both mistaken when they place the invention of automatous clocks about the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century.
Page 51 - Rush," a satire on the monks, is found in Low German verse of the end of the fifteenth or beginning of the sixteenth century. It was printed also in High German verse at Strasburg In 1515.
Page 12 - Christian religion, to which she had recently been converted ; but not being able either to induce, or to terrify her into such renunciation, he caused her to be put to the most cruel torments, and afterwards to be decapitated, about the year 275. " The History of ST. MARGARET, in the earliest Breviaries of the Romish church, was so fraught with impious and absurd anecdotes, that they have been from time to time so much altered and amended, as scarcely to retain any part of her original legend ;...
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Page 12 - ... of the yet unborn infant, as one who had extricated herself even from the body of the arch enemy. The girdle of this virgin saint was long stated to have been kept in pious custody at St. Germain's Abbey at Paris ; and being girt with it, was universally esteemed of the utmost service to ladies who were likely soon to require the assistance of the obstetric art ; but the holy friars were obliged to superintend the ceremony : ' a piece of charity,' says an old author, * to give them their due,...
Page 12 - ... saint. Neither Olybius, nor her father, having been capable of diverting her from a steady adherence to the Christian faith, recourse was had, say her monkish historians, to the assistance of Satan himself, who, in the shape of a dragon, swallowed her alive, though she speedily burst from that horrid confinement, and effected her escape. So miraculous a circumstance naturally pointed out the peculiar powers over which providence designed her to have empire ; for who could so well be capable of...
Page 11 - His body was thrown across a horse, and carried, for interment, to the Greyfriars at Leicester. He was the only English monarch, since the conquest, that fell in battle, and the second who fought in his crown. Henry V. appeared in his at Agincourt, which was the means of saving his life, (though, probably, it might provoke the attack,) by sustaining a stroke with a battle-axe, which cleft it. Richard's falling off in...
Page 29 - ... with an earthy vehicle. 2. Those whose colouring base, or the oxide, must be made to adhere by the help of a glassy body, namely the flux°. 8. The colours which require a flux may be divided again into : 1. Those in which the oxide unchanged, but only mixed with the flux, is attached to the glass. 2. Those in which the oxide requires to be vitrified, by previous fusion with the flux, before it is laid on the glass. The last may be called Fused Colours* ; all others Mixed Colours°. 9. The classification...