The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St. James's, Volume 1Smith, Elder, and Company, 1848 |
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... built by Gibbs , the architect of St. Martin - in - the - Fields . It was one of the " fifty , " impro- perly so called , that are said to have been built in the reign of Queen Anne ; for though fifty were ordered , the number was not ...
... built by Gibbs , the architect of St. Martin - in - the - Fields . It was one of the " fifty , " impro- perly so called , that are said to have been built in the reign of Queen Anne ; for though fifty were ordered , the number was not ...
Page 236
... built by the Earl of Pembroke , made way , sixty years back , for the present handsome set of buildings called the Adelphi , from the Messrs . Adam , brothers , who built it . † The principal front faces the Thames , and is almost the ...
... built by the Earl of Pembroke , made way , sixty years back , for the present handsome set of buildings called the Adelphi , from the Messrs . Adam , brothers , who built it . † The principal front faces the Thames , and is almost the ...
Page 261
... built some of the houses , and gave to the ground - plot of the square the exact dimensions of the base of one of the pyramids of Egypt . He could not have hit upon a better mode of conveying to the imagination a sense of those enormous ...
... built some of the houses , and gave to the ground - plot of the square the exact dimensions of the base of one of the pyramids of Egypt . He could not have hit upon a better mode of conveying to the imagination a sense of those enormous ...
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