Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 352
d beautiful; although one of the exceptions which it wasabove noticed that we should sometimes find to the law statedin § xv. above. § xlii. The lower capital, which is also of the true convexschool, exhibits one of the conditions of the spurred type, eof Fig. XXIL, respecting which one or two… … we did the spur of the base, we should have for the head of ourcapital a plan like Fig. LXVI., which is actually that of one ofthe capitals of the Fondaco deTurchi at Venice; with this onlydifference, that the intermediatecurves between the spurs wouldhave been circular: the reason theyare not so,…
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