London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 297
on those of the distant build-ing. I try them again and again : there is not anangle between them which a mite could measure;and the reason is evident. The argument whichapplies to the diagram, when a b is 100 ft., anda c 200 ft., applies with exactly the same force12 ft. There is precisely the… … when a b is G ft. and a e Retrospective Criticism. 283 4000 ft. high. The eye, therefore, puts the perpendicular lines of the pictureinto perspective (when the spectator stands at the point at which alone eventhe retiring lines can be in true perspective) exactly as much as it does thoseof nature;…
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