| blazingworld.com |
wish lists
recipes
resume
linked in
facebook
|
The Empress having received an information of
what concerned both Church and State, passed some
time in viewing the Imperial Palace, where she admired
much the skil and ingenuity of the Architects, and
enquired of them, first, why they built their Houses
no higher then two stories from the Ground? They
answered her Majesty, That the lower their buildings
were, the less were they subject either to the heat of the
Sun, to Wind, Tempest, Decay, &c. Then she
desired to know the reason, why they made them so
thick? They answered, That the thicker the Walls
were, the warmer were they in Winter, and cooler
in Summer, for their thickness kept out both cold and
heat. Lastly, she asked, why they arched their roofs,
and made so many Pillars? They replied, That Arches
and Pillars, did not onely grace a building very
much, and caused it to appear Magnificent, but made it
also firm and lasting.
|
| And if any should like the world I have made,
and be willing to be my subjects, they may imagine themselves such, and they are such—I mean
in their minds, fancies or imaginations. But if they cannot endure to be subjects, they may
create worlds of their own and govern themselves as they please.
|
| © 2025 by Sarah Reitmeier, except text from The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World, published 1666 by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle.
|