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30754	Ruskin, John	The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3)			.txt	text/plain	156974	6971	69	shaft and arch, the frame-work and strength of architecture, are from great distinctive feature of Northern architecture--the vaulting shaft. described as rough but majestic work, round-arched, with grouped shafts, schools of architecture: one group composed of buildings whose shafts we shall have the five forms now given in parallel perspective in Fig. XXII., which are the roots of all good capitals existing, or capable of but as a mere heading to a common pointed arch, we have the form _c_, of a single stone cut into the form of the group _b_ here, Fig. XL., or kind of stone lace-work, required for the ornamentation of the building, both forming the base of the wall, and gathering into that of the shafts cut farther into it, with incisions, which shall leave ornamental forms and leaf ornaments, like Fig. 8 or 9 of Plate XV.; and, when the shaft	./cache/30754.txt	./txt/30754.txt