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projections could never, by anypossibility, do in reality. To the eye of any one not practisedin looking at architectural drawings, these deceptions will makethe ugliest and most unscientific building look handsome. Acorresponding optical delusion is that of darkening the tint ofrecesses, and… … surd practice of imitating mosses and weather-stains, and notonly them, but even weeds and creepers, on designs for build-ings not yet erected, should be considered a greater deception. I come now to one of the greatest faults of this kind that 1know of; viz., the concealment of the whole, or the…
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