All these parts are filled with mosaicof varying patterns and colours.
The Mosaic Pavement=, also the work of Mr Davison, was the gift of the late Dean and Miss Argles.
Enlargement of foot-pace, and extension of mosaic pavement, by Mrs Argles.
A man with designs of the Florentine mosaic on plates and vases, &c.
Inlaid in mosaic there is here the sweet little inscription, "Sigh not, for good times are at hand.
Agate, porphyry, and carnelian were thought not too costly for the inlaying and mosaic of the apartments used by the emperor.
There are some very unique ceilings and mosaic dados in it, and a great quantity of the pretty mushrebeeyah.
On Wednesday I went with her to Clumber, where we saw the new and very ugly hall, with Italian artists putting down a mosaic pavement.
He was, however, a skillful workman in the celebrated inlaid and mosaic woodwork of the place, and, it is said, had even invented some new figures for the inlaid pictures in colored woods.
It has been supposed, from the early monuments of Christian art, that the worship of the Virgin is of comparatively recent origin; but this mosaic would go to show that Mariolatry was established before the end of the sixth century.
The rooms are from sixteen to twenty feet in height; above the tall doors and windows are transoms; the floors are of mosaic or stone; everything about the buildings appears designed to endure.
Then it entered the Church and tried to make the Church Jewish, by foisting the Mosaic Law upon it.
They wished to enforce the Mosaic Law, or rather their fantastic interpretations of it, upon Christians.
And whenever Gnostic teaching became practical, it frittered away morality in servile observances, based on capricious interpretations of the Mosaic Law.
Fleming, and is a mosaic compilation from poems written to the memory of Robert Burns: 1.
The ancient Hebrews are sometimes pointed out as the one possible exception to this practice, because the Mosaic law, as it has come down to us, is silent upon the subject.
All the expiation, moreover, which the Mosaic law provided for was ceremonial.
Christianity carries forward the principles of the Mosaic law into higher ranges, where justice is not less, but more--where brotherhood has a nobler purpose, a finer motive.
In this order it is implied that, although according to the ideal of the Mosaic law Israel was to be a holy nation, yet the reality fell very far short of it.
The kindly disposition promoted by the Mosaic institutions was shown thus, and in many other ways.
There are good reasons for believing that in pre-Mosaic times the day of new moon was celebrated by the Israelites and all kindred peoples, as it is still among certain heathen races.
A sacerdotal system now may, like that of the Mosaic law, be a tutor to bring men to Christ.
The whole system of religious observance and priestly ministration set forth in the Mosaic books may seem difficult to account for, not indeed as a national development, but as a moral and religious gain.
In this observance of a seventh day of rest, specially sacred, for the good of the soul, ancient Accadians and Babylonians prepared the way for the Sabbath of the Mosaic law.
Quite different is the idea of the Mosaic law which makes the holiness belong entirely to God, and requires of men the preservation of the clean life He has given.
This explanation, however, is too remote and alien from Judaism to be applied to these statutes regarding uncleanness, at least in the form they have in the Mosaic books.
The origins are certainly of the Mosaic time, and some of the statutes elaborated here must be founded on customs and beliefs older even than the exodus.
But the Mosaiclaw prevented abuse of the means of evading justice.
If we regard the origin of the Aaronic priesthood as belonging to the Mosaic period, then the wars and disturbances of the settlement in Canaan must have entirely disorganised the system originally instituted.
It must be noted that our marriage laws, lax as they are thought to be, do not give to a husband anything like the power or allow divorce with anything like the facility admitted by the Mosaic law as some of the Rabbis interpreted it.
Judaism added the authority of revelation--the Mosaic law, the prophetic word.
The Mosaic narrative commences with a declaration that, ‘in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
A large quantity of mosaicand exquisite marble fretwork, from this and other parts of the palace, was put up to auction by Lord William Bentinck, when Governor-General of India.
The marble slabs of the floor have been torn up, and the decoration with a kind of glass mosaic seems to have suffered from clumsy attempts at renovation.
She went on to speak of her having held to the notion of Liggins, but she adds, "I was never such a goose as to believe that books like yours were a mosaic of real and ideal.
A Roman pavement of mosaic work discovered in Little St. Helen's, Bishop gate street, London; supposed to have lain over 1700 years.
A mosaic pavement and other relics of Roman antiquity discovered at Avenches, in the canton of Bern.
The polytheist is oppressed and distracted by the variety of superstition: a thousand rites of Egyptian origin were interwoven with the essence of the Mosaic law; and the spirit of the gospel had evaporated in the pageantry of the church.
The Mosaic law had severely proscribed all representations of the Deity; and that precept was firmly established in the principles and practice of the chosen people.
Mosaic of the Patio de las Doncellas; Alcazar of Seville 138 LIII.
As with glazed earthenware, the origin of mosaic must be looked for in the East.
The mosaic found at Lugo is believed to have formed part of a temple dedicated to Diana.
Swinburne also mentions a mosaic pavement which he saw at Barcelona, upon the site of what he believed to have been a temple of Neptune.
This mosaic was found at a depth of six feet six inches below the surface of the soil, and measures twenty-one feet square.
This shows us" (continues Riano) "that it was only in the province of Andalusia that the art was known of cutting these tiles into geometrical sections and mosaic patterns.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the same mosaic would often take the form of a series of narrow, white, ribbon-like strips, with coloured interspaces.
Mosaic in the manner of the Greeks and Romans seems in Spain to have disappeared with the Visigoths.
Laborde describes another mosaic which existed, early in the nineteenth century, in a hall of the archbishop's palace at Valencia.
In October of 1901 a very important and beautiful mosaic was discovered at Italica.
The Greek mosaicwas composed exclusively of stone.
Even the floor, where it revealed itself among the scattered rugs, was laid in a mosaic pattern of matched woods, which, like the rugs, gave back these same shifting blues and uncertain yellows.
There was a trouble about breathing, and the mosaic floor seemed to stir under his feet.
This led him to reject the mosaic theory of vision, and to conclude that a partial image was formed behind every crystalline cone, and projected upon a multitude of fine nerve-endings.
Grenacher has pointed out that the composition of the nerve-rod furnishes a test of the mosaic theory.
The cells commonly form a mosaic pattern, as if altered in shape by mutual pressure.
Our vision is therefore mosaic too, and the retinal rods which can be simultaneously affected comprise only a fraction of those contained within the not very extensive area of the effective retina.
Such is Müller’s theory of what he termed “mosaic vision.
The chitinogenous layer of the tracheal tubes is single, and consists of polygonal, nucleated cells, forming a mosaic pattern, but becoming irregular and even branched in the finest branches.
The collection also contained a particularly fine mosaic binding, with doublures, by Monnier, and many volumes from the libraries of Grolier, Maioli, the Emperor Charles V.
There is also a mosaic portrait of Polo, opposite the similar portrait of Columbus in the Municipio at Genoa.
Let me, however, before elucidating the era of their actual erection, with their Phallic form and their further use, revert to the Mosaic history for the groundwork of my development.
In those communities the Mosaic law had become adapted to the sacred usages of the Gentiles even before the beginning of our era, and monotheism had made concessions to idolatry.
Its bright mosaic peak rose peaceful and still in the clear air.
In the distance, under two snow-capped peaks beyond, the mosaic domes and sandstone towers and painted walls of the capital glittered in the setting sun like some picture of an Arabian city vaguely known to memory.
Less vast than Monreale, but even more beautiful, because the charm of mosaic increases in proportion as the surface it covers may be compared to the interior of a casket, is the Cappella Palatina of the royal palace in Palermo.
Then compare this fresco with the Jupiter in mosaic upon the cupola of the Chigi chapel in S.
The latter is rather the Platonic Demiurgus than the Mosaic God.
Poliziano was content to reproduce the classic authors in a mosaic work of exquisite translations.
Some of the Ravenna churches are more historically interesting, perhaps, than this little masterpiece of the mosaic art.
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