The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and (14781226974)

Identifier: unitedstatesofam02shal (find matches)
Title: The United States of America; a study of the American commonwealth, its natural resources, people, industries, manufactures, commerce, and its work in literature, science, education, and self-government;
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate, 1841-1906, ed
Subjects: Industries -- United States United States United States -- Civilization
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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MODIFIED ROMAN ORDERS. 427 the orders. Columns and pilasters became higher in proportionto their diameter, entablatures lower in proportion to the heightof the columns or pilasters supporting them, and at the same timethe facile nature of wood enabled the builders to give to the de-tails a greater delicacy than would have been readily practicablein the monumental material. In ecclesiastical work the new interiors followed, so far as thecolonial exchequer would permit, the venerable traditions estab-lished in St. Stephens, Walbrook; in St. Mary-le-Bow; in St.James, Piccadilly; in St. Martins-in-the-Fields, and other con-temporary English churches; and their exteriors, depending al-most entirely on their towers for architectural character, en-deavored to imitate the steeples and lanterns of Wren. The domestic work of the better sort was formal and stately ;it carefully avoided picturesque or romantic expressions, and itsstudied symmetry, its fastidious precision of detail, its modestdig