Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Estes and Lauriat Publishers · leaf 62
proportions. The two are separated, as seen in the little wood-cut on the oi:)i)osite page, by a string-course composed of twolayers of red bricks, of which the uppermost projects as acornice, and is sustained by an intermediate course of irregu- * The intention is farther confirmed by the singular… … ^5^g Fig. II. lar brackets, obtained bj- setting the thick yellow bricks edge-ways, iu the manner common to this day. But the wall above13 carried up perpendicularly from this projection, so that thewhole upper band is advanced to the thickness of a brick overthe lower one. The result of this is,of…
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