The Great Centennial ExhibitionP.W. Ziegler & Company, 1876 - 544 strán (strany) |
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Strana 497 - The east and west entrances are approached by flights of blue marble steps from terraces 80 by 20 feet, in the centre of each of which stands an open kiosque 20 feet in diameter. The angles of the main conservatory are adorned with eight ornamental fountains. The corridors which connect the conservatory with the surrounding rooms open fine vistas in every direction. In the basement, which is of fireproof construction, are the kitchen, store-rooms, coal-houses, ash-pits, heating arrangements, etc.
Strana 288 - So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive tree, a fourth part of the wall. 34 And the two doors were of fir tree: the two leaves of the one door were folding, and the two leaves of the other door were folding.
Strana 319 - April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, or leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
Strana 150 - These turrets at the corners of the towers are surmounted with flag staffs, at other places with the national eagle. The national standard with appropriate emblems is placed over the centre of each of the four main entrances. Over each of the side entrances is placed a trophy showing the national colors of the country occupying that part of the building, At the vestibules forming part of the four main entrances variegated brick and tile have been introduced. The building stands nearly due east and...
Strana 288 - The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
Strana 149 - Contfany. and girders is 5,000,000 pounds. This building being a temporary construction the columns and trusses are so designed that they may be easily taken down and erected again at another site. The sides of the building for the height of seven feet from the ground are finished with brickwork in panels between the columns, above the seven feet, with glazed sash. Portions of the sash are movable for ventilation. The roof covering is of tin upon sheathing boards The ground flooring is of plank upon...
Strana 254 - Roman empire the art of enamelling terra-cotta disappeared among the Arab and Moorish races, who had retained a traditional knowledge of the process. The application of a transparent vitreous coating or glaze over the entire surface, like the varnish of a picture, is also referable to a high antiquity, and was universally adopted, either to enhance the beauty of single colours or to promote the combination of many.
Strana 311 - As this is peculiar to our instruments, and is always made by the maker so per-, manently as to need no further attention at the hands of the engineer, we shall here describe the means by which it is effected, somewhat in detail. The necessity for such an adjustment will appear, when we state, that it is almost impossible to make a .telescope tube, so that it shall be perfectly straight on its interior surface.
Strana 33 - ... when West was left more to his own inspiration and resources, he seemed to take a new start in his art, and his ' Christ healing the Sick ' and ' Death on the Pale Horse ' are still valued for far more than respectable drawing and colouring, and very conventional if quite honest feeling. West Was one of the first thirty-six members of the Royal Academy, and succeeded Sir Joshua Reynolds as president, retaining the office till West's death, at the age of eighty-two years, in 1820. Another American...
Strana 312 - ... must partake of its irregularity, so that the glass and the line of collimation depending upon it, though adjusted in one position of the slide, will be thrown out when the slide is moved to a different point.