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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 313

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it likely to be generally useful to us afterwards ; andI promised the reader that as he had built, so he should deco-rate his edifice at his own free will. If, therefore, he likes theabove triangular spur, c d e, by all means let him keep it; butif he be on the whole dissatisfied with it, I may be… … these delicate mouldings,we cannot convenientlyapply the spur to its ir-regular profile ; we mustbe content to set it againstthe lower roll. Let theupper edge of this lowerroll be the curved linehere, a, d, e, b, Fig. LIX.,and c the angle of thesquare plinth projectingbeneath it. Then the…

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