Ruskin, John; Cook, Edward T. [Editor]: The works of John Ruskin: The elements of drawing. The elements of perspective. And the laws of Fésole (London, 1904)

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that things should stand upright, unless they have clearly
some reason for stooping.
It will, however, I should think, he nearly indifferent
to you whether you look at Figure 7 as I have placed it,
or from the side of the page. Whether it is broad or high
will not matter, so long as it is balanced. But you see
the charm of it is increased, in either case, by mequality
of dimension, in one direction or another; by the intro-



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duction, that is to say, of another law, modifying the first.
11. Next, let us take sixpences, which we see will
at once fall into the pleasant equal arrangement, Figure
5, Plate III.; but we will now break up that, by putting
four together, as in our first quatrefoil here ; and the fifth
on the top (Figure 8).
But you feel this new arrangement awkward. The
uppermost circle has no intelligible connection with the
group below, which, as a foundation, would be needlessly
large for it. If you turn the figure upside-down, however,