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The stones of Venice (1851)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London, Smith, Elder, and co. · leaf 99

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ey have become the united floor or foundation of the whole), and, for the sake of greater clearness, I shall not draw the bricks in the shaft, nor the flat stone which carries them, though the reader is to suppose them remaining as drawn in Fig. XI. ; but I shall only draw the shaft and its two… … spective appearance of such a base seen from above ; and c, the plan of it. § XI. Now I am quite sure the reader is not satisfied of the stability of this form as it is seen at b ; nor would he ever be so with the main contour of a circular base. Observe, we have

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