and in such a case as this, everything depends, on the Voluntariness of the ornament. The work of time is beautiful on surfaces, but not on edges intended to be sharp. Even if we needed them blunt, we should not like them blunt on compulsion ; so, to show that the bluntness is our own ordaining, we… … one of the very best ever invented. By enlarging and deepening the incision, we get in succession the forms b, c, d ; and by describing a small equal arc on each of the sloping lines of these figures, we get e, /, g, h. § X. I do not know whether these mouldings are called by architects chamfers or…
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