The Centennial Exposition of '76 had been mainly an expression of engineering. Sixteen years later architecture had dominated the Exposition in Chicago. The Exposition in San Francisco was to be essentially pictorial, combining, in its exterior building, architecture, sculpture and painting.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
The dialogue form I have used for several reasons: it is easy to follow; it gives scope for more than one kind of opinion; and it deals with the subject as we all do, when with one friend or more than one we visit the Exposition grounds. It has been my good fortune to he able to see the Exposition from points of view very different from my own and much better informed and equipped. I am glad to pass on the advantage.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
In January, 1904, R. Hale of San Francisco wrote to his fellow-directors of the Merchants' Association, that, in 1915, San Francisco ought to hold an exposition to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. In the financing of the St. Louis Exposition, soon to begin, Mr. Hale found a model for his plan. Five million dollars should be raised by popular subscription, five million dollars should be asked from the State, and five million dollars should be provided by city bonds.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
From the hills looking down on the bay the Exposition began to seem somewhat huddled. But the nearer one approached, the plainer it became that this effect was misleading. On the grounds one felt that there was plenty of room to move about in. And there was no sense of incongruity. Very adroitly styles of architecture that might have seemed to be alien to one another and hostile had been harmoniously blended. Here the color was a great help. It made the Exposition seem all of a piece.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
Hartie, D.D., Glasgow, 900, pp. 74-81. [3] (p. Exposition du systeme du monde (included in oeuvres Completes), by M. le Marquis de Laplace, vol. VI., p. [4] (p. From The Scientific Papers of J.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-3》
[1] Bell's communications were made to the Royal Society, but his studies and his discoveries in the field of anatomy of the nervous system were collected and published, in 1824, as An Exposition of the Natural System of Nerves of the Human Body: being a Republication of the Papers delivered to the Royal Society on the Subject of the Nerves. [2] Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S.L., On the Reflex Functions of the Medulla Oblongata and the Medulla Spinalis, in Phil. Trans. of Royal Soc., vol. XXXIII., 1833.英文原著 · 《A History of Science-4》