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Updated: May 13, 2025
The stalks are bound round with several belts, and the capital is formed by the slightly bulging unopened bud of the flower, above which is a small abacus with the architrave resting upon it: the base is nothing but a low circular plinth. The square piers also have frequently a lotus bud carved on them.
LXIII. used for the abacus; the reader could hardly have a neater little bit of syntax for a first lesson. V., with the added roll. XXI., p. 109. These two capitals are from the cloister of the duomo of Verona. § XXXIII. The lowermost figure in Plate XVII. represents an exquisitely finished example of the same type, from St. Zeno of Verona.
Then, assuming the abacus to be square, d will already fit the shaft, but has to be chiselled to fit the abacus; f will already fit the abacus, but has to be chiselled to fit the shaft. From the broad end of d chop or chisel off, in four vertical planes, as much as will leave its head an exact square.
The abacus, the hundred square and the thousand cube, will then in all probability become its cardinal numerical memories. The child should not be taught the Arabic numerals until it has counted for a year or more. Experience speaks here.
The capital is itself twofold, consisting of a curved member and an angular member. The Ionic capital, belonging to a more feminine style, exhibits the abacus subordinated to that beautiful cushion-shaped member with its two spirally marked volutes.
The windows have a shaft in the jamb, and the abacus of the capitals is continued round the tower as a string, but interrupted by the buttresses and weatherings, as is also another string below the sills. In the windows of the north side there is a space or tympanum over the inner arch.
First came two thousand robbers, sentenced to be hung up by their heels, emblematic of their wish to turn every thing, upside down so to remain until they were pecked to death by the crows, or torn to pieces by the vultures. The banner of innovation. One of the robber chiefs, ordered to be choked with an abacus, which was suspended round his neck. Another of the robber chiefs.
A tall man in dove-gray silk with a high scarlet turban moved athwart the altar, chanting as he solemnly lifted one by one a row of symbols: a round wooden measure, heaped with something white, like rice, in which stuck a gay cluster of paper flags; a brown, polished abacus; a mace carved with a dragon, another carved with a phoenix; a rainbow robe, gleaming with the plumage of Siamese kingfishers.
The same instrument continued to be employed during the middle ages, and the table used by the English Court of Exchequer was but a modified form of the Greek Abacus, the chequered lines across it giving the designation to the Court, which still survives.
They paid no heed to our hurry, and instead of shouldering the baggage they proceeded to weigh it, each manload by itself, on a steelyard of wood six feet long; the results they then worked out conscientiously on an abacus. After which I paid accordingly. Truly an equitable adjustment between man and man, at which I lost only the time it took. Then we started.
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