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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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