130 TheOrdoncmce of the PartII.

Cm. VJII. Distinction made between those Things, which, in Sculpture andPainting, are represented as Ornament's, and those that are repre-semed Historically, as containing Truths and Matter of Fact:. Forthe former ought to be repeated, and renew’d, always in the famemanner, and the latter ought to be diversified, For Example, ifwe represent the Border of a Flower-garden, it may be adorn’dwith leveral Sorts of Flowers, in different Dispositions, because thething is really so in Fact: But if we would adorn any Memberof Architecture, with Foliage, or Flowers, we should not only re-peat the fame Foliage, and the fame Flowers, but they ought, like-wise, to be of the same Bigness, and have the fame Disposition 3 thisRepetion of the fame thing, making a part of that Symmetry, inwhich, one of the principal Beauties of Architecture, and Sculpture,consists, as to the point of Ornaments. And it signifies nothing tolay that the Roses we speak of are Ornaments of another Kind,than those which are continued through the Length of a Square, anOgee, or a Cimaise ; and that these Roses being separated eachfrom other, \ is sufficient, for the Symmetry, that they are all ofthe same Bigness: For there is no more Reason to make these Ro-ses different, than there is to make the Modillions so, which, tho*they are all of the fame Bigness, would not be endur’d, if theywere made of different Figures, there being no Person, that, in aRow of Modillions, would like some should be cut with Olive-leaves, others with Leaves of Acanthus, others with Eagles, otherswith Dolphins instead of Leaves, as we find them in different Build-ings of the Antique.

Although, among the Reflexions made in this Chapter, up-on the Abuses in Architecture, lately introduc’d, there are somethat do not very particularly belong to the Subject of this Treatise,of the Ordonance of Columns; I thought, nevertheless, they oughtnot to be left out, because they appeared, to me, so considerablethat I could not let flip the Opportunity of speaking of them, tho’something out of the Way, in Hopes that this Freedom, I take,will be considers as one of those Abuses, which, though contraryto Rules, are, however, authoris'd, because they are considerablyulesul on some Occasions.

T o conclude this Treatise, I shall repeat the Protestation I for-merly made in the Preface : namely, that I have no Design the Pa-radoxes, I have advanced, should be look’d upon as Opinions thatJ am obstinately resolv'd to maintain, being ready to renounce them,when I shall be better inform’d of the Truth, supposing that I maybe now in the wrong. But, above all, as to those Things I call

Abuses,