Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 134
eighteen or twenty shaftscluster together, and sometimes the smaller shafts crouchimder the capitals of the larger, and hide their heads in thecrannies, -with small nominal abaci of their owoi, while thelarger shafts cairy the serviceable abacus of the whole pier,as in the nave of Rousn. There is,… … Fig. XXVIII. stretched itself out to do all the work : here there are idleabaci getting up into corners and doing none. § XXVII. Finally, we have considered the capital hithertoentirely as an expansion of the Ijearing power of the shaft,supposing the shaft composed of a single stone. But,…
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