London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 300
let us look intothe philosophy of Egyptian, Greek, and Gothic design, wherewe shall find the examples of each proportionally charming, asthe nature of the material has had its due influence in establish-ing the scantling and general outline; or as the imperativeadoption of some new feature in… … dence to the truth of the canon I would now establish : in thedefects of the Roman examples, we find that evidence corro-borated. The result, therefore, we should seek to obtain is, acorrect translation of the philosophy, not the poetry, of ancientarchitecture into the iron tongue. The philosophy…
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