London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 41
in vain attempt to surpass; but theonly change, of any import, with which its introduction was asso-ciated, consisted in the elongation of the column, to accord withthe increased lightness of its termination. To this point of elevation had Grecian talent carried the de-tail of architecture (though… … claimed the homage of the arts as well as of the arms of a world.The variations which Roman taste introduced into the systembecame most conspicuous in the combinations which succeededto the discovery of the principle of the arch; a discovery notimprobably suggested by the forms which masonry…
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