A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge (1598)
Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo, 1538-1600, Haydock, Richard · Printed at Oxford : By Ioseph Barnes for R.H. · leaf 326
tionable, and fit for the obtaining thcrof.As for example, if a man would afcende to the top ofan houfe, he mufl take a ladder proportionable there-unto, or fbme other inftrument fittefor thepurpofc.Neither wil it fuffice to take an inftrument of any fife,but onely fuch a one as is abfolutcly… … i*o THE FIFTH !B00^E * r* dot it bet. ther helpe, which the Philofophcrs call * ad melius eft. So that an inftrfi-». mcnt ought to haue two qualities •, the one, that it may guide vs to our wi- shed ende; and the other, that it haue fnch vcrtue and perfection, that itmay performc our purpofe better…
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