arches cutting one another in a wall, and sup-ported by timbers with their ends projecting … out, and carved into heads, faces, lions*heads, &c. Corinthian Order, the third Grecian orderof architecture, said by some to be imitative ofthe delicacy of shape and slenderness of pro a house set up as they ought to stand; it con-tains the fifth part of the field, and is expressedas above.…
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