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The laws of Fesole ; also, A joy forever ; Our fathers have told us ; Inaugural address ; Modern painters (1800)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Joy forever, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Our fathers have told us, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Inaugural address, Ruskin, John, 1819-1900. Modern painters · Boston : Aldine Book Pub. · leaf 341

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289 PRECIPICES. § 5. But although the other divisions of this precipice, below the ledge which stops the plummet, give it alto- gether a height of about five hundred feet,* the whole * The contour of the whole cliff, seen from near its foot as it rises above the shoulder of the Breven, is as at… … measured is a d ; but the precipice recedes to the summit b, on which a human figure is discernible to the naked eye merely as a point. The bank from which the cliff rises, c, recedes as it falls to the left ; so that five hundred feet may perhaps be an under-estimate of the height below the…

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