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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : Ticknor and Co. · leaf 149

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able to assign an important and independent part to iron. If, as remarked before, iron is destined in our modern build-ings only to serve as a security for imperfect masonry, or todisguise its pi-esence beneath parasitical casings, it would be aswell for us to let it alone, and to build as they… … 3 _oa

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