Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · Boston : Aldine Book Publishing Co. · leaf 476
ed to findsome of its inventions half-realized, in a decorated panel orgrinning extremity of a rafter. These characters being kept in view, as objects to be at-tained, the remaining considerations are technical. For the form. Select any well-grown group of the treewhich prevails most near the… … Fig. 26. b, Fig. 26). Strike a circle through these three points ; andthe angle contained in the segment cut off by a line joining aand b is to be the angle of the cottage roof. (Of course weare not thinking of interior convenience ; the architect mustestablish his model of beauty first, and then…
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