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such unfounded statements we would simply reply, thatthere is scarcely an old Norman doorway in any of our churchesthat would not furnish a capital for a new order, which shouldpossess far more originality than can be claimed either for theTuscan or the Composite. Having thus arrived at that period… … V ^ E £ V discern in all its monumentstb.e expression of one object,that of the support of a hori-zontal mass of covering orentablature, by the use, first ofcolumns, and afterwards ofcolumns in frequent connec-tion with arches. The sup-port of the entablature was theend in view; the use of co-lumns…
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