Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 206
i the fourth place, you found (§ ix.)that you were never to run a A-ertical bar into the arch head ;so you run them all into it (as at B, Fig. XLVI.): and thislast arrangement will be useful in two ways, for it will notonly expose both the bars and the archivolt to an apparentprobability of every… … Fig. XLVI. the curves c, d. you may easily multiply into four ; and these,as you can put nothing into their sharj) tops, will afford you amore than usually rational excuse for a little bit of German-ism, in filhng them with arches upside down, e, f. You willnow have left at your disposal two and…
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