St. Mark's rest : the history of Venice written for the help of the few travellers who still care for her monuments (1885)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Lovell · leaf 625
use andbuoyancy of flight, but little in the activity of it. Essentiallythey are the brooding and covering feathers of the wing ; ex- 48 LOVES MEINIE. qiiisitely beautiful—as far as I have yet seen, most beautiful—iu the bird whose brooding- is of most use to us ; and whichhas become the image of… … Fig. 8. them ; but of these I can take no notice at present. All thatI want you to understand is the action of the two main masses,as the wing is opened and closed. Fig. 7 roughly represents the upper surface of the mainfeathers of the wing closed. The secondaiies are folded overthe iHimuries; and…
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