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Page 66
... built in the shape of the characters that form the name . It is now forty - one years since I received the destination to superintend this building , being a perfect architect , but I kept it secret from the world . ' Thus saying , he ...
... built in the shape of the characters that form the name . It is now forty - one years since I received the destination to superintend this building , being a perfect architect , but I kept it secret from the world . ' Thus saying , he ...
Page 74
... built on the plan of the earliest Mosques , very different from those of Constantinople , which are nearly all copied from St. Sophia , a square with apses on three sides . There are five aisles in the Great Mosque , and in the centre a ...
... built on the plan of the earliest Mosques , very different from those of Constantinople , which are nearly all copied from St. Sophia , a square with apses on three sides . There are five aisles in the Great Mosque , and in the centre a ...
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... built for himself and which was completed after his death by his widow . His name became a byword in antiquity and after for the futility of the attempt to perpetuate one's fame by structures of perishable material – by anything other ...
... built for himself and which was completed after his death by his widow . His name became a byword in antiquity and after for the futility of the attempt to perpetuate one's fame by structures of perishable material – by anything other ...
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