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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 292

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ie Roman colunin. Heniade tliem short, and square or cylindrical i^Fig. 3S) ; * or, if heAvoukl avoid the heavv aspect of thèse supports, be fashioned theiiilike a chister of cokuuns (Fig. 39).t But he soon vaidted the aisles,while he continued to use timber roofs for the iiave. He saw thatthèse… … against one side of which he built up an engaged column, A. to carrythe cross-vaidting or ribs of the aisle, two other columns, B, againstthe two adjacent sides to bear the archivolts sustaining the longitudi-nal wall of the nave, and, against the foiuth or inner side, the columnC, which arose from…

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