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A treatise of the 5 orders of columns in architecture, viz. toscan... wherein the proportions and characters of the members of their several pedestals,... are distinctly consider'd,... engraven on 6 folio pl. ... adorn'd with 24 borders,... and a like number of tail-pieces by John Sturt / written in French by Claude Perrault... ; made English by John James of Greenwich
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Part II. five Kinds cf Columns.

Abuses, I declare that all the Reasons I have us o to condemn themas Inch, do not appear, to me, strong enough to make me thinkthem preferable to the Authority of those great Persons, who haveapproved and establishd them , I only thought, that the Veneration,and Respect, I have for them, ought not to hinder my treatingthese Questions as Problems, upon which, I could heartily wish tohave the Decisions of the Learned, who would give their Judgmenthonestly, without Partiality or Prejudice.

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