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...s quest for knowledge leads to further knowing of Allah. Islam saves classic wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. -- 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe-The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcuin and his literary arts and sciences school system to France to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, ...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conque... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ... ...nglish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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...t home. These machines may have been bought for one purpose, but the flexible architecture—one that made them ready to be programmed using software fro... ...tions are now commonplace, and major software efforts of- ten include plug-in architecture that allows fourth parties to write code that builds on the ... ... it is open to reprogramming and thus repur- posing by anyone. Its technical architecture, whether Windows, Mac, or other, makes it easy for authors t... ...net’s framers and implementers have largely clung to simplicity, omitting an architecture that would label and then speed along “special delivery” pac... ... flourished by beginning in a backwater with few expecta- tions, allowing its architecture to be simple and fluid. The PC had parallel hobbyist backwat... ...each other through char- itable contributions. See, e.g., Larry Catá Backer, Medieval Poor Law in Twentieth Cen- tury America: Looking Back T owards a...

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...cepts); b) material ideas (embodied in art canvas, sculptures, architectures, machines, tools). Creativity and inventiveness belong to us... ... New Types of Philosophies: a) Object Philosophy: a building through its architecture, a flower, a bird flying, etc. any object are all ideas, or i... ...of Mathematics>, Bombay, India, No. 18, 53-55, 1996. [20] Leff, Gordon, "Medieval Thought from St. Augustine to Ockham", Penguin Books, Inc., Balti... ...d (T 2 , I 2 , F 2 ) under others. 98 ----------- ----------- The Medieval paradox, called Buridan’s Ass after Jean Buridan (near 1295-1356),...

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...society never gets the knowledge embedded in it. (This is a real danger. The medieval guilds often relied on secrecy to maintain the com- mercial adva... ...duce during exams, it seems perfectly clear. If handwriting truly showed the architecture of the soul, then Jefferson’s would conjure up Monticello or... ...et must approach perfect control, both in its legal regime and its technical architecture. Like any attractive but misleading argument, the Internet T... ...ans that we should pause before increasing the level of rights, changing the architecture of our communications networks, creating new crimes, and so ... ...and metastasize into a claim of monopoly, or at least control, over the very architectures of our communications technology. And that is exactly where... ...pying online. But that effect comes with a price—it makes our communications architecture a little bit more tightly controlled, reducing but not remov...

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...c wisdom and passes China’s wasp secret to the West. 8. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The illiterate warrior-king brings the scholarly monk Alcu... ...d the Muslim Army’s advance across the Pyrenees in 732. Charlemagne and Medieval Europe The Arabs were still in the early stages of their conquest... ...heir accomplishments, let‘s look to the times in which they are set. The medieval period (or Middle Ages) began about 500 AD with the fall of the R... ...t, as well as enrichments in the fields of literature, writing, the arts, architecture, liturgical, and scriptural studies. The bartering system was ... ...glish. King Richard, the great-grandson of William, was the epitome of a medieval English king, but the Lionhearted spoke only French and spent more... ...e end of the fifteenth century. Past preservation priority proved costly Medieval Western culture focused on guarding rather than on expanding accu...

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... 37 might consider being a psychologist or a teacher. If you have a sense of beauty and of geometry you might consider archit... ... ―Though the 11 th Century the Muslim rulers fostered an advanced level of sciences, literature and the arts. Agriculture was improved. Archit... ...—―But Lee, those athletes divorced. So sometimes reality eclipses the lunar induced romantic love. But I have to agree that the ballads of the mediev...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene...

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... Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism - have wrought misery on a scale unprecedented even by medieval standards. Only Fascism and Nazism compare with them un... ...y. A small percentage of the population lived on trade behind the massive walls of Medieval cities. In most parts of central, eastern and southeast... ...ty" (New York, MacMillan, 1958) described this mental shift of paradigm thus: "The medieval citizen was on the way towards becoming an economic man... ...as characterized by tensions between party, state and the economy - exactly as the medieval polity was plagued by conflicts between church, king an... ...s of feudalism. The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed a concerted effort by medieval scholars to apply "scientific" principles and human kno... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene...

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...ccumulation in the present makeup of human culture. This can be seen today in architecture: where modern buildings are still built with facades and ... ...is towards increasing duplication and identicality. Look at the evolution of architecture, look at the evolution of cars, look at how people are dr... ...here, and accomplishing something.’ This is nothing more than a modernized medieval oath of loyalty. Every peasant on Earth for thousands of yea... ...e part of our past is organically connected to our present. For example: The Medieval ritual of anointing Kings with sacred oil is over 2,500 years... ...½ of Europe to the same squalor, poverty and terrorization as the rest of his medieval empire of starving slaves. The American empire was not crea... ...dden motives, multiple motives, secret agenda’s, secret plots… The history of Medieval England has many layers. Imagine sticking a bunch of ignor... ...rches. There are many first-hand accounts of the abysmal stupidity of the medieval Romans. The city became a pigsty of idiots… and every human ... ...plitness Chapter Seven: Entities and the Alternative The entire ancient architecture of temples and large decorated buildings: screaming out th...

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...ies XXIII. Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and the International Financial Architecture XXIV. War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s C... ...ransfer (ART) financing. It is a hybrid between creative financial engineering and medieval mutual or ad hoc insurance. It often involves "captives... ... Return Financial Crises, Global Capital Flows and The International Financial Architecture By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The recent upheavals in the... ...it is clear that an important and integral part of the new International Financial Architecture MUST be the control of speculative money in pursuit... ...it is clear that an important and integral part of the new International Financial Architecture MUST be the control of speculative money in pursuit... ...y are likely to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of vene...

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...sins. But Wanda, on the plus side of your tally, we have the monuments to architecture, sculpture and music, some orphanages and hospitals, and some... ...he highest of human potentials which have produced the pinnacles of human architecture. Look at the celestial achievements of the chisel and pallet—... ...ack to the 1500s, when there is some evidence that it was invented by the Medieval church which taught that witches worshipped Satan and did a numbe... ..., although Muslims have not always agreed as to when that occurs. Several medieval Muslim authorities mentioned "ensoulment" occurring after 120 day... ...ense to them. The traditional patriarchal power of the Romans survived in Medieval England and allowed a father to kill any child who had not yet ta...

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...where religion reigned (such as in Sumeria, Egypt, the Islamic world, and Medieval Europe). With e-books, content will once more become a collabora... ...e. This will be facilitated by the opening up of the TCP/IP communication architecture and its availability to PCs. A billion USD will go just to fi... ...ly to prefer old age to youth, old habits to new, old buildings to modern architecture, etc. This preference of the Elders (a term of veneration) ove...

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...er receiving his degree from Williams he at- tended the Columbia School of Architecture and after graduation became a partner in the firm of Squires &... ...undecided, Joeokel will enter., the Harvard law school. Johnson will study architecture at the University of California. Continued in the next isme. M... ...omething about the services in our chapel. We have a building which by its architecture and its associations naturally, and it would seem, should irre... ... now occupied by thew. The house is a frame structure of sim- ple colonial architecture through- out. A two-story portico with columns adorns the fron... ...he same hours, as in previous years. About a dozen photographs of Egyptian architecture to illustrate Greek (5 liavo been placed on ex- hibition in th... ...istory need intelligent adaptation to the present. The differences between medieval conditions and present conditions do not invalidate the arsument t...

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...er, on the outskirts changes were apparent enough; notably in dwelling house architecture. The fine new homes are noble and beautiful and modern. They... ...n the Mississippi Mark T wain 218 the old flush times: for the steamboat architecture of the West has undergone no change; neither has steamboat f... ...uilt if he had not run the people mad, a couple of generations ago, with his medieval romances. The South has not yet recovered from the debilitating ... ... Institute building has long been famed as a model of striking and beautiful architecture. Visitors are charmed with its resemblance to the old castle... ...emen and ladies clothed according to the latest mode. Not that there is any “architecture” in Canal Street: to speak in broad, general terms, there i... ...ver tires of it; it always has a fine sound to him. There is a kind of swell medieval bulliness and tinsel about it that pleases his gaudy barbaric so... ...the advantage of the gentlemen of the cowl and rosary, and he will stay. His medieval business, supplemented by the mon sters and the oddities, and t... ... starchier way of phrasing it—would be wholly modern, in place of modern and medieval mixed, and the South would be fully a generation further advance... ... those wrought by “Ivanhoe.” The first swept the world’s admiration for the medieval chivalry silliness out of existence; and the other restored it. ...

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...ith its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, ... ...painted windows; and as often as he gazed at them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ... ...er strata of thought, it was delightful to catch glimpses of the grand old architecture that stood around the square. The life of the flitting moment,... ...tion of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture, dim and gray and huge, stretch- ing into an interminable pers... ...church. Besides, it is a Gothic ornament, and only suited to that style of architecture, which requires a gorgeous dimness.” “Nevertheless,” continued...

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... palace. This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a mediaeval tower, square, ... ...hey passed the portico of a T emple of Minerva, most rich and beautiful in architecture, but woefully gnawed by time and shattered by violence, beside... ... the nave. The interior of the church was of moderate compass, but of good architecture, with a vaulted roof over the nave, and a row of dusky chapels... ...be of a similar kind; and the knobs and embossed ornaments of this strange architecture are represented by the joints of the spine, and the more deli-... ...ith its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, ... ...as often as he gazed at 232 The Marble Fawn them the sculptor blessed the medieval time, and its gor- geous contrivances of splendor; for surely the ...

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...rter periods. He went to Canterbury and came under the influence of Gothic architecture. There was a blood affinity between Mr. Polly and the Gothic; ... ...imself, un- der the impression that he was naming a characteristic type of medieval churchman. He liked to sit in the nave during the service, and loo... ... of the church found an outlet in whispered criticisms of eccle- siastical architecture with Johnson. “Early Norman arches, eh?” he said, “or Perpendi...

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...is my account of them—of which I dare say, alas, que cela manque souvent d’architecture. But I would rather, I think, have too little architecture tha... ...es. Her uncle and her cousin were there to prove it; nothing could be more medieval than many of their views; they had ideas that people in England no... ...rt in frames as pedanti- cally primitive, those perverse-looking relics of medieval brass and pottery, of which Italy has long been the not quite exha... ...istoric building in a narrow street whose very name recalled the strife of medieval factions; and found com- pensation for the darkness of her frontag... ...brightness of a garden where nature itself looked as archaic as the rugged architecture of the palace and which cleared and scented the rooms in regu-... ...of local colour. It had local colour enough, and though he knew less about architecture than about Limoges enamels he could see that the proportions o...

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... front of the municipal buildings. CHAPTER XII What the Wives Saved THE RATHHAUS, OR MUNICIPAL BUILDING, is of the quaintest and most picturesque Midd... ...from a great distance down the bends of the river, and with just exactly room on the top of its head for its steepled and turreted and roof-clustered ... ..., in the garden, with the beautiful Neckar flowing at our feet, the quaint Dilsberg looming beyond, and the graceful towers and battle- ments of a cou... ...from a crevice in his upper teeth, laid him low, and said with composure: “Whar’s the boss?” “I am the boss,” said the editor, following this curious ... ...ose to them. This pile of stone is peculiar. From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest... ... work as this must necessarily be imperfect, yet they are of value. The top of the Trunk is arched; the arch is a perfect half-circle, in the Roman st...

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...had the best of taste, the best of inexpensive rugs, a simple and laudable architecture, and the latest conveniences. Throughout, electricity took the... ... mankind was perhaps lessened by his large and complacent ignorance of all architecture save the types of houses turned out by speculative builders; a... ..., was finishing a rondeau to show how diverting was life amid the feuds of medieval Florence, but how dull it was in so obvious a place as Zenith. And... ...e stone rotunda, decorated with crown-embroidered velvet chairs and almost medieval tapestries, parrakeets sat on gilded lotos columns. With exclamati...

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...ght naturally to be favorable to the art of murder, as they were to church architecture, to stained glass, &c.; and, accordingly, about the latter end... ...ideous creatures, however visionary 8 , have a real traditionary ground in medieval belief—sincere and partly reasonable, though adulterating with men...

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...hapter-houses, chapels, and transepts) one-storeyed and dwarfish projections. To add to this appearance, it was grotesquely decorated with crockets an... ...e steadiness of a dragoon, a horse-pistol. She was wound about in shawls which did not wholly conceal the candid fabric of her nightdress, and surmoun... ... right angles, and showed me a gate and the beginning of a gravel sweep; and a little after, as I continued to advance, a red brick house about sevent...

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...any interest, its many emptinesses as inexplicable now as the cruelties of medieval Venice, the theology of old Byzantium. And they ruled and influenc... ...lley of the Four T owns, as the workers moved out, came to us to study the architecture of the residential squares and quad- rangles with which we had...

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... and her gorgeous plutocracy repeated V enice in the magnifi- cence of her architecture, painting, metal-work and sculp- ture, for example, in the gri... ... fought like junks, throwing grenades fighting hand to hand in an entirely medieval fashion. The risks of a collapse and fall on either side came near...

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...lain, tight dresses she achieved the effect of that stiff prim shape which medieval sculptors succeeded in giving to the statuettes whose profiles are... ...ca of the 272 Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Place Dauphine. The style of architecture is the same, of brick with binding courses of hewn stone. This... ... pace the immense hall known as the Salle des Pas-Perdus, was a miracle of architecture; and it is so still to the intelligent eye of the poet who hap... ...que—the three phases of ancient art—were harmonized in one building by the architecture of the twelfth century. This palace is a monumental history of... ...pre- cincts the stamp of the early races, and, in the Sainte-Chapelle, the architecture of Saint-Louis. Municipal Council (to you I speak), if you bes... ...on. While mak- ing his arrangements to die, he wondered how this marvel of architecture could exist in Paris so utterly unknown. He was two Luciens—on...

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...ew tree and the north aisle.’ ‘It’s a curious story; it carries us back to medieval times, when faith was a living thing!’ The remark, singular for a ... ...ent that it might not echo their footsteps. The graceful pile of cathedral architecture rose dimly on their left hand, but it was lost upon them now. ...

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...preparedness is, as he says, the final test of sincerity. Like Froissart’s medieval hero, who saw that “to rob and pill was a good life,” he is not th... ... haved bravely, admirably, and, in the final analysis, public- spiritedly. Medieval society, on the other hand, behaved very badly indeed in organizin... ...payers are not solid in defence of their position is that since we are not medieval rovers through a sparsely populated country, the poverty of those ... ...ey turn up their noses at their neighbors’ drains, and are made ill by the architecture of their neighbors’ houses. Trade patterns made to suit vulgar...

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...eopatra come down the corridor, Caesar peering keenly about at the strange architecture, and at the pillar shadows between which, as the passing torch... ...ilver, and stones of jade and agate. His sword, designed as carefully as a medieval cross, has a blued blade showing through an openwork scabbard of p... ...command over Nature” which makes many of our English methods appear almost medieval to the up-to-date Chicagoan. This means that the American has an a...

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...ty—of imperishable masterpieces of poetry, of painting, of sculp- ture, of architecture, of music, of exquisite fashions in dress, in furniture, in do... ... brain, if you ask me; but no heart. GUNN. Oh, shut up, Bannal. This crude medieval psychol- ogy of heart and brain—Shakespear would have called it li...

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...degrees of merit, in manly bev- erages and trinkets, in seemly apparel and architecture, in weapons, games, dancers, and the narcotics. This cultivati... ...gh, the local sanctuary is more ornate, more conspicuously wasteful in its architecture and decora- tion, than the dwelling houses of the congregation... ...y and serviceability are to be 103 Veblen seen, for instance, in domestic architecture, in domestic art or fancy work, in various articles of apparel... ... for aesthetic beauty, has been especially effective in the development of architecture. It would be extremely dif- ficult to find a modern civilized ... ...ons to this rule as are afforded, 207 Veblen for instance, by some of the medieval orders of monks (the members of which actually labored to some use...

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...comes 33 Trollope used to bright colors, in carriage aprons as well as in architecture, and I soon learned to like them. Rhode Island, as the State i... ...ed whether perpendicular Gothic is capable of the high- est nobility which architecture can achieve. I do not pre- tend to say that these Canadian pub... ...ward. Of the library there is a large model showing all the details of the architecture; and if that model be ultimately followed, this building alone... ...but next to, the buildings at Ottawa. It will be the second piece of noble architecture in Canada, and as far as I know on the Ameri- can continent. I... ...d to be purely Norman, though I doubt whether the received types of Norman architecture have not been departed from in many of the windows. Be this as... ...there is, of course, none of that old- fashioned, time-honored, delicious, medieval life which lends so much grace and beauty to our colleges. There a...

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...orative side, it was the same phenomenon in music as the Baroque school in architecture: an energetic struggle to enliven organic decay by mechanical ... ...olute music, starting partly from Brahms, and partly from such revivals of medieval music as those of De Lange in Holland and Mr. Arnold Dolmetsch in ...

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...her went; and although this is as undesirable an expertness as that of the medieval robber baron, it qualifies men to keep an estate or a business goi... ...ination and senses through stained- glass windows; and where sculpture and architecture came to the help of painting. Nobody ever reminded them that t...

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...er attention wandered, and she gazed at the audience, or the organ, or the architecture. Much did she censure the attenuated Cupids who encircle the c... ...he superiority of the unseen to the seen. It’s true, but to brood on it is medieval. Our business is not to contrast the two, but to reconcile them.” ... ...be swept away? In the streets of the city she noted for the first time the architecture of hurry and heard the language of hurry on the mouths of its ... ...6 Howards End all over England in the beginning of the last century, while architecture was still an expression of the na- tional character. That was ...

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...called Mayer, and a pupil of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture called Rybnikov, went one evening to see their friend Vassilye... ...rts of nonsense. He said it would be nice if we could suddenly come upon a medieval castle with turreted towers, with moss on it and owls, in which we...

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...are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin’d city, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe. I am a free co... ...d through a populous city imprinting my brain for future use with its shows, architecture, customs, traditions, Yet now of all that city I remember on... ...most renown’d poems would be ashes, orations and plays would be vacuums. All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it, (Did you think i... ...ange eclaircissement of all the masses past, the eastern world, the ancient, medieval, Here, here from wanderings, strayings, lessons, wars, defeats—h...

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...Through the ad- vancing wall of waters he sees no grisly faces, no ghastly medieval limbs, but—But what nonsense! When real things are so wonderful, w... ...hought of with respect. It was built about the year 1800, and favoured the architecture of an- cient Rome—chiefly by means of five lank pilasters, whi...

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...uilt at dif- ferent periods, and devoid of all pretensions to any style of architecture; but the rooms, though not lofty, were warm and comfortable, a... ...even in this way any approximation could have been made, even in these old medieval days, towards a fair proportioning of the pay to the work. At any ... ...re and there in London, built in compliance rather with the rules of rural architecture, than with those which usually govern the erection of city str...

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...ed Vronsky that he even wore a hat and flung a cloak over his shoulder in the medieval style, which, indeed, was extremely becoming to him. “Here we li... ...ng his portrait of Anna, deciding that it was now not needed. His picture of medieval life he went on with. And he himself, and Golenishtchev, and sti... ...na answered Sviazhsky, who was ex pressing his surprise at her knowledge of architecture. “This new building ought to have been in harmony with the h... ... made an unpleasant impression on Dolly. “But Anna Arkadyevna’s knowledge of architecture is marvelous,’ said Tushke vitch. “To be sure;I heard Anna ... ...that he often went straight to her with questions relating to agriculture or architecture, sometimes even with questions relating to horse breeding or...

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...d language, pretending to be students discussing various fields of study: “architecture” referred to the World Trade Center,“arts” the Pentagon,“law” ... ...l. 1 (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1994). 8. See Emmanuel Sivan, Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics, enlarged ed. (Y ale Univ. Press, 199... ...rson might be the appropriate official. 15. For the information technology architecture, see Ruth David interview (June 10, 2003). For the necessity o...