Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 128
the proportions are altogether different. You will feel the fitnessof this in an instant when you consider that the principal func-tion of the sloping part in Fig. XII. is as a prop to the pillar tokeep it from slipping aside / but the function of the slopingstone in the cornice and capital is to… … Fig. XII., and make this change in them as we reverse them,using now the exact profile of the cornice a,—the father ofcornices; and we shall thus have a and &, Fig. XIX. Both of these aresufficiently ugly, thereader thinks ; so doI; but we will mend them before we havedone with them : thatat a…
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