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The stones of Venice (1890)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 412

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e cinque cento leafage are visible in theleaves above. The dove, alighted, with the olive-branchplucked off, is opposed to the raven with restless expandedwings. Beneath are evidently the two sacrifices of everyclean fowl and of every clean beast. The color is given withgreen and white marbles, the… … APPENDIX. 363 we take five circles in geometrical proportion, each diameterbeing two-thirds of the diameter next above it, and arrangethe circles so proportioned, in contact with each other, in themanner shown in the plate, we shall find that an increase quiteimperceptible in the diameter of the…

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