The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra.

  • George, Count Joannes
Date:
1843
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Credit: The history of ancient America, anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas / By George Jones. The Tyrian æra. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rising from their corners to a central apex, to be es- sentially pyramidal,—for a cone is pyramidal, or an “oblong” rising and diminishing from a broad base ; all walls on an inclined plane—no matter at what de- sree of elevation or declivity, possess the chief essen- tial of a pyramid. The cone, oblong, and square,—even a, triple-sided or octagonal pyramid, would be, one and all, correct phrases in the language of Architecture, to express the character of the pyramid ; and are so used in contra- distinction to walls (one or more) of a perpendicular description,—and the instant such walls lose the facial of the plumb-line, they become pyramidal, from the principle of the wall rising from its base, and falling to a centre, which, we repeat, is the chief essential of the pyramid. The number of sides, or none at al] (7. e. a cone), has no part in the pyramidal princeple ; as the key-stone is to the Arch, so the apex is to the Pyramid; but if the latter zs only half reared, yet ap- proaching by the inclined walls towards an apes, it is as much a pyramidal structure as if the sides had reached the apex itself. It is to be regretted that Mr. Stephens should have been ignorant of the Fine Arts and their rules—(we make this remark on his own ho- nest confession* )—because by the confusion of terms he not only often contradicts himself,.but misleads the general reader in forming conclusions from his graphic descriptions. * Vide J. L. Stephens’s Travels in Egypt.
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