IRUBIMENTS

OF

ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE.

PART THE FIRST,

The study of Architecture has, in everyenlightened age, and by every civilized na-tion, been held in very honourable esteem;as a necessary and pleasing science, and ofevident utility.

When we consider it as improved by theGreeks about the time of Pericles , its per-fection and beauty, how conspicuously itexhibited the liberality, splendour, andmagnificence of those concerned in erect-ing structures, the remains of which asto-nish us; and how highly flattering it wasto the mind of man in an age of splendour,to raise edifices which should strike be-

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