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to bementioned, that no part of a Gothic building (of course exclud-ing modern restorations) is found older than the doors, or morerecent than the windows. This rule may admit of some excep-tions, but they are exceedingly few. The reason of it willreadily appear. From the small size of the early… … 228 Dxvelliiig-liooms of a tlouse : — feature of an edifice. Hence it happens, that, where any of thesmall early windows have escaped destruction, they are alwaysaccomjianied by larger windows of a later style. The samenecessity did not exist for altering doors, so that we have re-maining a much…
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