Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 393
pproach thèse porticos,where they would liave beeii most likely to amuse tliemselves byknocking ofF tlie délicate edges. Althoiigli thèse profiles are iindeni-ably much more beautiful thaii tlieir Asiatic prototypes, I must say Fig. 63. ■V 7 ^tt that the fillet A of the base in Fig. 63 seems… … Let us pass by the Roman base of the time of the empire, as usedin the lonic and Corinthian orders, — a base Avhich every one knows,and which rests upon a square plinth whose projecting corners arereadily broken under the superincumbent weight, and are of no earthly EOMAXESQUE AXD GOTHIC BASES. 319…
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