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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 144
1793
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The essays, or Counsels, civil & moral, with a table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pages
...for Summer and Winter, Shady for Summer, and Warm for Winter. You fhaH have fometimes fair Hetifei fo full of Glafs, that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the Sun, or Cold , For Inbmved Windows I hold them of good ufe i (in Cities indeed 1> fright do better...
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Annual Register, Volume 16

Edmund Burke - 1774 - 606 pages
...its charafteriftics is the affec" tation of large and lofty windows ; where, fays Bacon, you lhall have fometimes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that...to become, to be out of the fun." The marks which constitute the charafter of Gothic, or Saracenical architecture, are its numerous and prominent buttreffes,...
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The Antiquities of England and Wales, Volume 1

Francis Grose - 1783 - 370 pages
...affectation of large and lofty windows ; where, fays Bacon, you ihall have fometimes GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE fometimes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot...to become, to be out of the fun." THE marks which conftitute the charaéler of Gothic, or Saracenical architecture, are its numerous and prominent buttrefles,...
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The history and antiquities of Hawsted

sir John Cullum (bart.) - 1784 - 280 pages
...were become fo fafhionable in this reign, that lord Bacon, in his 45th Eflay, complains, " you mail have fometimes fair houfes fo " full of glafs, that...cannot tell where to become, to be out of the fun, or " cold." 4 This, I am aware, is a doctrine that has of late been combated by fome French philofophers,...
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The Antiquities of England and Wales, Volume 1

Francis Grose - 1782 - 370 pages
...large and lofty windows ; where, says Bacon, you shall have sometimes fair houses so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the sun." The marks which constitute the character of Gothic, or Saracenical architecture, are its numerous...
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Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts ..., Volume 2, Part 1

Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 474 pages
...of its charafteriftics is the afftcbtion of large and lofty windows ; where, fays Bacon, " you mall have fometimes fair houfes fo full of glafs, that one cannot tell where te come to be out of the fun." To return now to our general hiftory, and to conclude : In the 151)1...
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Essays on Gothic Architecture

Thomas Warton, James Bentham, Francis Grose, John Milner - 1802 - 240 pages
...the affectation of large and lofty windows, where, fays fays Bacon, " you mall have fometimes faire houfes fo full of glafs that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the fun, &c." Effayes, xii. After what has been here incidentally faid on this fubject, it may not be amifs...
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Essays on Gothic Architecture,

Thomas Warton, James Bentham - 1802 - 260 pages
...the affectation of large and lofty windows, where, fays fays Bacon, " you fhall have fomelimes faire houfes fo full of glafs that one cannot tell where to become to be out of the fun, &c." Effayes, xii. After what has been here incidentally faid on this fubject, it may not be amifs...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 16

1803 - 598 pages
...stones between two set perpendicular, so as exactly to fit and fill up the interval. so full of glass, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the sun." " The marks which constitute the Qn the Suppression of Religious character of Gothic or Saracenical...
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Fourth booke of the Faerie Queene, canto I-XII

Edmund Spenser - 1805 - 492 pages
...affectation of large and lofty windows ; where, fays Bacon, " you fhall have foinetimes faire houfes, fujull of glafs, that one cannot tell where to become, to be out of the fun, &c." Eff'. xii. T. WARTON. rights. On which this Shield, of many fought invaine, THE SHIELD OP LOVE,...
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