London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 583
ould be passed, tower andall, through a single window of that building. Too many andtoo large projecting buttresses, when seen in the perspective,hide a great portion of the richest part of your work, and like-wise create too many shadows. When 1 say this, I speak ofsmall buildings, because the eye… … South Elevation. it would be bad taste to introduce the like number of parts intoeach edifice; and it is evident that it is a mistaken notion inthose who imagine that, if they observe the same laws, follow thesame proportions, and have the like number of parts, that theygain the same effect in a…
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