Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 149
have been verycurious in designing out of the way arches,—elliptical arches,and four-centred arches, so called, and other singularities.The good architects have generally been content, and we forthe present will be so, with Gods arch, the arch of the rain-bow and of the apparent heaven, and which… … Fig. XXXI. up, c. There will be an infinite number of arches betweenthese, but we will take these as sufficient representatives of all.Then a is the low arch, b the central or pure arch, c the higharch, and the rays of the sun would have drawn for us theirvoussoirs. § xii. We will take these…
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