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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 109

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ts, but are rathercanaliculated conditions of massypiers. Tlie representatives ofthis family may be consideredas the (piatrofoil on ihc Gothicside of the Alps ; and the Egyptian multifoiled shaft on thesouth, approximating to the general type, b, Fig. XVI. § XVI. EKactly opposed to this great… … Pig. XVI. THE SHAFT. 103 tliey must be named here in order to mark theii* exact oppo-sition to the foiled system. In their simplest form, repre-sented by c, Fig. X\T^., they have no representatives in goodarchitecture, being evidently weak and meagre ; but approxi-mations to them exist in late…

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