... of the points of support, and
hence the nature of the structural design. A comparison, for example, of the plans of
the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig. 11, h) and of the Basilica of Constantine ... and accurate the author’s name is a
sufficient guarantee. Essential historical and biographical facts, together with brief
critical estimates and characterizations...
... in the case of a mouthful of bread and meat
swallowed at once, the bread passes away on its travels long before the meat has done dancing attendance in
the stomach, awaiting that transformation ... makes, as nearly as possible, the same chyme as the charcoal-burner's black
bread; and though the palate of the former may be better treated than that of the latter...
... hooves and tail of
a goat) that Christian art borrowed the first features of the devil,
before granting him a pair of wings (he was a fallen angel, after
all) and then exaggerating his animal characteristics.
In ... for example, made Nyx,
goddess of the night, the daughter of Chaos, the primordial void,
and the mother of Uranus and Gaia, the sky and earth.
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