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The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott (1841)

Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852 · London, J. Weale · leaf 114

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the scale instead of multiplying the parts. But the very reverse of this is the case in classic architecture ; a column or cor- nice is the same, great or small, whether they are employed in front of an ordinary house or of a vast temple ; no distinction except that of size is ever made ; 10 A… … Small Buttress.

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