Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 115
mber offoils, because multifoiled shafts are seldom true grouped shafts,but are rather canaliculated conditions of massy piers. The re-presentatives of this family may be considered as the quatrefoilon the Gothic side of the Alps ; and the Egyptian multifoiledshaft on the south, approximating to… … these are not, properly speaking,grouped shafts at all, and their pro-per place is among decorated piers ;only they must be named here inorder to mark their exact opposi-tion to the foiled system. In theirsimplest form, represented by c,Fig. XYL, they have no representa-tives in good architecture,…
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