The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
20 THE COURSE AND CURRENT ASSYRIAN. … early call upon decorative architecture, whose ing to an forms nature would supply to Assyrian as elementary willingly and readily as to Greek, are circumstances that lend their countenance to this theory, which is further supported, I think, by the primitive, free, and natural air of the Assyrian…
Architecture -- History
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