o answer, since it answers itself; it being anindisputable fact that columns so employed do answer thepurpose to which they are turned. The other question isnot so easily answered : the prejudiced will of course answerit according to their own contracted taste and narrownotions, condemning the mode… … OF ARCHITECTURE. 49 horizontal architrave and entablature, or general horizontaltrabeation. That by the substitution of arches for archi-traves, the character of the Greek system is forfeited, cannotbe denied ; but then another character is established whosedifference from the original one ought…
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