Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 175
ttention. § vi. One main cause of it, the necessity of throwing off * I do not speak of the true dome, because I have not studied its con-struction enough to know at what largeness of scale it begins to be rathera tour de force than a convenient or natural form of roof, and because theordinary… … THE ROOF. 155 snow in the north, has been a thousand times alluded to:another I do not remember having seen noticed, namely, thatrooms in a roof are comfortably habitable in the north, whichare painful sotto piombi in Italy ; and that there is in wetclimates a natural tendency in all men to live as…
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