and a tetrastyleone (with a pediment) on each front ;and no beam would be required of greaterspan than 11 feet, that of the architravesbeing only 8 feet. A late restorationwhich challenges the production of abetter has nearly all its architraves of17 feet span, and forming the only baseto a pyramid… … OF ARCHITECTURE. 199 The immense temple of Ephesus, and others, hardly infe-rior, in most of the cities of that country, were Ionic ; butthe European Greeks, with their general accuracy of taste,confined this order to their smallest works, in which, sub-limity being unattainable, elegance was…
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