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Ch.YIII. The like Abuse is more common in Pilasters, it being the Pra-ctice of the Moderns , when, for Example, the Pilaster G makesan Advance, and causes the like in the Entablature and Pedestal,to join to it an half Pilaster H, which both penetrates it, and is pe-netrated by it 5 this half Pilaster being to lupport the Entablaturethat runs, continued, over the Pilaster I, the Abuse consists in this,

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that besides the Parts penetrating each other, the half Pilaster H, isalso out of its place, and wholly useless, the Pilasters K and L, be-ing sufficient. The Reason of this is, that those Works, where Pi-lasters, and half Pilasters are, as G H I, which have no more Pro-jecture than the fifth or sixth part of the Diameter of the Pilaster,and that make an Advance but of this Thickness, ought to be consi-ders as Bas-reliefs, which represent the whole Relievo M N O, andthat those, which, as L K, have no half Pilasters, represent the en-tire Relievo P Q.R. Now it is certain, that the Manner MN O, (has no Reason in it, and that the Disposition of the Pilaster Q, inthe whole Relief, is much better than that of the Pilaster N, which,not being directly opposite to the Pilaster M, but on the Side of it,is quite out of its place. And ’tis also certain, that the Representa-tion of what is amiss, can be good for nothing; unless for otherReasons than are taken from the Nature of the Thing, such as arehere the multiplying of Ornaments, which consists in the half Ca-pitals, and half Bases, placed very improperly. So that it may ge-nerally be said, that all half Pilasters are properly Abuses, not onlyin the Kind here propos’d, where a half Pilaster is joind to a wholeone, but even, when two half Pilasters meet in an inward Angle.So that the little Corner of the Pilaster Q, is the only thing thatcan regularly be put in the inward Angle 5 as is done within thegreat Portico’s that are in the Front of the LouVre. For though wefind half Pilasters in inward Angles, in the most approv’d Works ofthe Antique, such as the Tantheon ; yet as they always suppose amutual Penetration of two Columns, we may truly fay, they arecontrary to exact Regularity, with which, however, we may fome-• ■ f times