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Lectures on architecture, comprising the history of the art from the earliest times to the present day: delivered at the Surrey and Russell Institutions, London, and the Philosophical Institution at Birmingham (1823)

Elmes, James, 1782-1862 · London, Priestley and Weale · leaf 257

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est of the Greek we have,though grievously misapplied, and it will re-quire no prophet to predict the result in themind of any person of taste. This order is by Palladio restored and com-pounded from all the best antique specimensfound by him in Rome: his column is purer instyle than any single… … part of the cornice, is too complex and en- A VJ ON ARCHITECTURE. 245 riched for the simplicity and manly characterof the order. The frieze is divided as hefound the best remains in ancient Rome, andthetriglyphs are consequently misdivided; thefrieze has two faces, and the whole entablaturetoo…

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