Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 351
out of onestone. Take the section of these capitals through their angle,and nothing can be simpler or purer ; it is composed of 2, inPlate XV., used for the capital itself, with c of Fig. LXIII.used for the abacus ; the reader could hardly have a neaterlittle bit of syntax for a first lesson. If… … Pj,ATii XVll.—CAllTAhS. Co,NCAVl-: UuoLr. THE CORNICE AND CAPITAL. 317 some slight curvature being usual on so bold a scale ; but it isall the better as a first example, the method of reduction beingof order d, in Fig. XXII, p. 117, and with a concave cut, asin Fig. XXL, p. 116. These two capitals…
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