... besides, which singularly illustrates the proverb, that Scotsmen are ever wise behind the hand. When the heritors had chosen the cheapest, or at least the ugliest plan which was laid before them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate... Walks in Edinburgh - Page 190by Robert Chambers - 1825 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
| Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which is only rendered more deformed by the contrast. It may be hoped, that the number of excellent architects... | |
| Walter Scott - 1834 - 484 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which is only rendered more deformed by the contrast. It may be hoped, that the number of excellent architects... | |
| Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 490 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which is only rendered more deformed by the contrast. It may be hoped, that the number of excellent architects... | |
| Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 498 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a gi;eat heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which is only rendered more deformed by the contrast. It may be hoped, that the number of excellent architects... | |
| Walter Scott - Novelists, English - 1848 - 498 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a gteat heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which is only rendered more deformed by the contrast. It may be hoped, that the number of excellent architects... | |
| Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Scotland - 1845 - 572 pages
...them, had seen it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong barn, with huge disproportioned windows, they...it only rendered more deformed by the contrast."— SIB WALTER SCOTT'S Provincial Antiquities. t The other Episcopal Chapels in Edinburgh are, St Paul's,... | |
| Adam and Charles Black, Adam and Charles Black (Firm) - Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1851 - 284 pages
...it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong bam, with huge disproportioned windows, they repented of...which it only rendered more deformed by the contrast." — SIE WALTER SCOTT'S Provincial Antiquities. t The other Episcopal Chapels in Edinburgh are St. Paul's,... | |
| Scotland - 1851 - 704 pages
...it executed, and were at leisure to contemplate the ground cumbered with a great heavy oblong bam, with huge disproportioned windows, they repented of...building, which it only rendered more deformed by the contrast."—SIB WALTER SCOTT'S Provincial Antiquitia. t The other Episcopal Chapels in Edinburgh are,... | |
| Scotland - 1852 - 710 pages
...great heavy oblong barn, with huge diaproportioned windows, they repented of the enormity which they hM sanctioned, and endeavoured to repair their error by building a steeple, in i. f tyle of ornamented and florid architecture ; as if the absurd nnery of such an -ippendage could... | |
| 1865 - 396 pages
...disproportioned windows, they regretted the error which they had sanctioned, and endeavoured to repair it by building a steeple, in a style of ornamented and florid architecture, as if the finery of such an appendage could relieve the heaviness of the principal building, which it only rendered... | |
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