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The Ruskin Library Transcript T7B reads ‘side’; ‘idea’ seems a certain emendation.
See Works, 8.64 on the barbarism of the use of a buttress where it is not wanted or of no use. Similar points are made in Chapter XV of Stones of Venice Vol. 1 beginning Works, 9.202, and the conclusion of that chapter at Works, 9.210 warning against the excessive use of buttresses:
Its use may, however, always be regarded with respect, when its form is simple and its service clear; but no treason to Gothic can be the use of it in indolence or vanity, to enhance the intricacies of structure, or occupy the vacuities of design.
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