Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 552
educed to threeprimitive dispositions, indicated by the three diagrams A, B, C, inFig. 100, which are block-forms required by structural necessity.Thèse block-forms admitted, it remains to give them the particularexpression proper for the duties they are to perform and the positionsthey are to… … so contrived as to throw the rain-water far frora its surface ; ail thelower members of the cornice must be eut in such a manner as tohâve the appearance of sufïicient strength to sustain the burdenimposed upou them. The string-course B is nothing more than acincture or band, indicating in the…
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