Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 135
ravelly banks ofthe lanes of Hampstead : but make the bank of gravel, equallyloose, six hundred feet high, and see if you can get it to over-hang a hundred or two ! much more if there be weight aboveit increased in the same proportion. Hence, let any capitalbe given, whose projection is just safe,… … Fig. XXIV. Let, then, the quantity e d, and angle d b c, at A, of FigXXIII., be invariable, and let the length d b vary: then weshall have such a series of forms as may be represented by a,b, c, Fig. XXIV., of which a is a proportion for a colossalbuilding, b for a moderately sized building, while…
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