Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 229
e may beto withstand war, look forth for tidings, or to point to heaven :but it must have in its own walls the strength to do this ; it isto be itself a bulwark, not to be sustained by other bulwarks ;to rise and look forth, the tower of Lebanon that lookethtoward Damascus, like a stern sentinel,… … Plate VI.—Types op Towers. SUPERIMP0S1TI0N. 201 shaft, joined with its strength, and associated in its upright*ness, part of the tower itself: exactly in the proportion inwhich they lose their massive unity with its body and assumethe form of true buttress walls set on its angles, the towerloses…
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