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But more importantly, they discovered edifices down there that they did not understand.
The idea was to save the financial system from having to deal with safely dismantling the impossibly complex contractual edifices – which did not allow for the possibility of systemic collapse – that it had constructed.
In most conflicts, prisoners' rights are routinely debased, torture is commonplace, and the inviolability of cultural and religious edifices is ignored.
A famous developer with his name on all sorts of edifices and a personal fortune, he had been the star of a long-running prime-time “reality” show – a lodestone of US popular culture.
Ancient Romans used two words to describe cities: urbs, which referred to the edifices and infrastructure, and civitas, or an active and engaged citizenry.
But the institutional edifices that once made its liberal and social democratic sectors dominant have been significantly weakened.
This, at least, is the theory of Mr. Charles Darwin, who thus explains the formation of atolls--a theory superior, in my view, to the one that says these madreporic edifices sit on the summits of mountains or volcanoes submerged a few feet below sea level.
As usual, one of the most imposing of these edifices had been termed, in the language of the day, "a house of entertainment for man and beast."
had you ever seen El Dorado, you would no longer have maintained that the castle of Thunder-ten-tronckh was the finest of all possible edifices; there is nothing like seeing the world, that's certain."
By day, one could admire the variety of its edifices, all sculptured in stone or wood, and already presenting complete specimens of the different domestic architectures of the Middle Ages, running back from the fifteenth to the eleventh century, from the casement which had begun to dethrone the arch, to the Roman semicircle, which had been supplanted by the ogive, and which still occupies, below it, the first story of that ancient house de la Tour Roland, at the corner of the Place upon the Seine, on the side of the street with the Tannerie.
However, these edifices of the transition from the Romanesque to the Gothic, are no less precious for study than the pure types.
Great edifices, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
The edifices which belong exclusively to any one of these three layers are perfectly distinct, uniform, and complete.
Hence, complex monuments, edifices of gradation and transition.
However, all these shades, all these differences, do not affect the surfaces of edifices only.
Hence, the prodigious exterior variety of these edifices, at whose foundation dwells so much order and unity.
But these are the principal masses which were then to be distinguished when the eye began to accustom itself to this tumult of edifices.
The amusingly varied crests of these beautiful edifices were the product of the same art as the simple roofs which they overshot, and were, actually, only a multiplication of the square or the cube of the same geometrical figure.
There were also fine edifices which pierced the petrified undulations of that sea of gables.
Now, if the enumeration of so many edifices, summary as we have endeavored to make it, has not shattered in the reader's mind the general image of old Paris, as we have constructed it, we will recapitulate it in a few words.
The generating idea, the word, was not only at the foundation of all these edifices, but also in the form.
And not only the form of edifices, but the sites selected for them, revealed the thought which they represented, according as the symbol to be expressed was graceful or grave.
Thought was then free only in this manner; hence it never wrote itself out completely except on the books called edifices.
Hence, edifices comprehensible to every soul, to every intelligence, to every imagination, symbolical still, but as easy to understand as nature.
That capital of forces which human thought had been expending in edifices, it henceforth expends in books.
Let the reader now imagine what an investment of funds it would require to rewrite the architectural book; to cause thousands of edifices to swarm once more upon the soil; to return to those epochs when the throng of monuments was such, according to the statement of an eye witness, "that one would have said that the world in shaking itself, had cast off its old garments in order to cover itself with a white vesture of churches."
In Egyptian Orient, poetry has like the edifices, grandeur and tranquillity of line; in antique Greece, beauty, serenity, calm; in Christian Europe, the Catholic majesty, the popular naivete, the rich and luxuriant vegetation of an epoch of renewal.
This chamber, circular in form, occupied the ground floor of one of those great towers, which, even in our own century, still pierce through the layer of modern edifices with which modern Paris has covered ancient Paris.
The nearest edifices to them were the bishop's palace and the church.
Outside the balustrade of the tower, directly under the point where the priest had paused, there was one of those fantastically carved stone gutters with which Gothic edifices bristle, and, in a crevice of that gutter, two pretty wallflowers in blossom, shaken out and vivified, as it were, by the breath of air, made frolicsome salutations to each other.