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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York: John Wiley · leaf 327

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dissatisfied with it, I may be permitted, perhaps,to advise him to set to work like a tapestry bee, to cut off thelittle bit of line of salvia leaf x y, and try how he can bestsubstitute it for the awkward lines c d c e. He may try it anyway that he likes ; but if he puts the salvia curvature… … salvia leaf line with tracing paper, he will find it accurately usedin this figure.) Then I merely add an outer circular line torepresent the outer swell of the roll against which the spur is

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