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[M2.12backL]                                                          [M2.12back]									12
                                                                      
                                                                      		the one side also, there is a limit to the multiplication
                                                                      		of the slender shaft, in the inconvenience of the narrowest
                                                                      		interval:  on the other, a limit to the expansion of
                                                                      		the massy shaft in the inconvenient space taken from the
so also on the one side there is a limit to slenderness               		width of the building. ^ Between these extremes the
in the increased trouble cost of the cutting and adjustment           		architects choice will be regulated by his intention
of small parts:  on the other to massiveness  in the                  		of graceful or grand expression;  remembering always
increased difficulty of raising enormous masses.                      		that it is best to lean towards the side of grandeur
                                                                      		because constructively strength and material are always
                                                                      		lost by subdivision of substance in the shafts;  and that
                                                                      		arrangement {of proportion} will generally be the best
                                                                      		which is a natural {& rational} mean between the two
                                                                      		extremes, after due consideration of the materials both of
in Chioggia war.  Pisani after his own liberation sent                		the shafts and superstructure.  For {of course} more slender
him to Malamocco He had afterwards in that war the                    		shafts may be safely used when they can be cut out of a
post of the abbey at S Nicolo di Lido                                 		hard tough stone than of a soft brittle one;  and when they 		can be
Negli abb alberi del Cappellari vien detto che ricupero               		cut out of a single block, than when they must be made of
Chioggia riprese Feltre Belluno Pola e l’Istria celebrated            		many pieces;  All these circumstances must be known before
in Pietro Guistianiani history                                        		as well as the Expressional intention, before we can say
Era cavalier de S. Jacopo.  He married Constance daughter             		whether such and such a shaft is truly proportioned or not
of William della Scala and had 4 sons Riposa il capo                  		and there are is literally an infinite license of various
sobra uno sabreciato leone the dog at his feet animals                		proportion correspondent to the infinite changes of such
significative of bravery and fidelity.                                		circumstances but there is in every case, supposing them
                                                                      		all known

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