Word: arching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border of the precipice where the arch enemy of souls finds his greatest hunting ground. It is the first step then that is accountable for all. Once make yourself a drunkard, and drunkenness does not appear as base to you as before...
...white wall, and Professor Cooke, in his entertaining way, commented on each as it passed. All the pictures were interesting, and many of them beautiful. Among them may be mentioned several fine views of the Coliseum, showing its construction and the recent excavations, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantions, the Aqueducts, the Arch of Constantine, a view from the Capital looking back over the Forum, the Via Sacra, several views of the Tiber, and, last of all, St. Peter's, showing the dome in all its beauty...
Besides the present buildings, the plan embraces reservations for extensive additional building sites for a university church, a memorial arch, buildings for the industrial department now under construction, libraries and museums, a botanic garden, four districts laid out in building lots suitable for detached dwellings and domestic gardens, with public ways directly communicating with the central university buildings, sites for a kindergarten, a primary school, an advanced school, and a school of industry and physical training, and a direct avenue between the central quadrangle and a proposed station of the Southern Pacific Railway, bordered by groves and promenades, with space...
...arch built of massive blocks of tufa, and supposed to be the Porta Trigemina, has been unearthed at the foot of the Aventine Hill, near the Forum, in Rome...
...enclosure formed by them will be paved with concrete. It will be divided by a boulevard running from the south to the north entrance. The arcade is designed to permit communication between the buildings without exposure to the weather. The main entrance to the court is through a memorial arch, which is to have a frieze running around the top, illustrating the progress of California. On the right and left of the arch are two story buildings-one containing the natural history collection and the other the library. When additional buildings shall be found necessary they will be built around...