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Si monumentum requiris, don't look at Ken's Gherkin.
Will no one halt the vandalising of London's skyline? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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Si monumentum requiris, don't look at Ken's Gherkin.
Will no one halt the vandalising of London's skyline? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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As for that Blair legacy, well, ‘Si monumentum requiris, circumspice’.
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As for that Blair legacy, well, ‘Si monumentum requiris, circumspice’.
Archive 2008-05-18 2008
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'Si monumentum requiris circumspice' but in Wren's case it applied to an amazing and wonderful edifice, whereas in Gramsci's case it would apply to the ruins of our own hertitage and culture.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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I was stopped and moved by the words above the crypt of the great architect Christopher Wren, who built so much of that majestic city: Lector, si monumentum requiris, circumspice -- "Reader, if you seek his monument, look about you."
James Rocchi: The Moviegoer: Roger Ebert's Not at Sundance, Except When He Is 2008
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Cuius si quantitatem requiris, non nisi machinis & instrumentorum genere & adminiculo leuari poterat: si qualitatem, nec materia nec opere ipsum putem aliquando ab aliquo huiusce apparatu superatum iri.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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As was said of Sir Christopher Wren, so is it true of him whom we mourn: Si monumentum requiris, circumspice!
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The best record of his life is to be found in the present condition of the country -- _si monumentum requiris circumspice_.
The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Various
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Si monumentum requiris, circumspice; it points us back to London.
Howards End 1924
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