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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 128

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e to berealised (as we shallsee presently); butit is not inconsistentwith its centralcharacter, as therepresentative ofevery species ofpossible capital;nor is its tile andflower-pot look tobe regretted, as itmay remind thereader of the re-ported origin of theCorinthian capital.The stones of… … Fig. XIX. 114 THE STONES OF VENICE. a board or tile: I wish there were an English word for it, butI fear there is no substitution possible, the term having beenlong fixed, and the reader will find it convenient to familiarisehimself with the Latin one. § iv. The form of base, e of Fig. XII., which…

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