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great difFiciilty in its application to both, if no mixture of dates is to be allowed in the 

 respective styles of each. Thus, the English antiquary will discover, and, perhaps, be 

 offended at, the mixture of Saxon, Norman, and the several dates of subsequent build- 

 ings called C5othic ; but the man of taste •will discover beauty in the combination of 

 different forms in one great pile, or he must turn with disgust from every cathedral 

 and abbey in the kingdom. In like manner, the traveler and connoisseur in Grecian 

 antiquities, will not only object to more than one of the five orders in the same build- 

 ings, but will detect the intermixture of even the minutest parts in detail ; while the 

 man of taste will discover beauty and grace in combination of forms, for which there 

 is not authority in the early, and, therefore, most simple edifices of those countries. 

 It is by such combinations only, that the Grecian style can be made applicable to the 

 purposes of modern habitation. 



"The best models of pure and simple Grecian architecture, wore temples, many 

 without a rooi" and all without windows or chimneys. Such models might be imita- 

 ted in our churches, or public edifices ; but houses built from such models would 

 become inconvenient, in proportion as this external simplicity is preserved. For this 

 reason, Ixigo Jones, and our early architects in the Grecian style, took their models 

 from buildings of later date (chiefly Roman), where the different floors are marked by 

 different orders placed one over another. 



" As the taste for Grecian architecture became more correct, and, by the works of 

 Stuart and others, the more simple original models became better known in England, 

 various attempts have been made to adopt it in modern houses ; but a palace, or even 

 a moderate sized residence, can not be entirely surrounded by a peristyle, like a Gre- 

 cian temple ; and, therefore, the portico alone has been generally adopted.* 



"The Modern Style. — The numerous difliculties in reconciling the internal con- 

 venience of a house to the external application of Grecian columns of any order, at 

 length banished columns altogether, and introduced a new style, which is, strictly, of 

 no character. This consists of a plain building, with rows of square windows at equal 

 distances ; and if to these be added a Grecian cornice, it is called a Grecian building : 

 if, instead of the cornice, certain notches are cut in the top of the wall, it is called a 

 Gotliic building. Thus has the rage for simplicity, the dread of mixing dates, and the 

 difficulty of adding ornament to utility, alike corrupted and exploded both the Grecian 

 and the Gothic style in our modern buildings. 



" Without a bigoted attachment to either, every one must confess that there are a 

 thousand beauties and graces in each, which deserve our admiration, although they 

 can not, without violence, be made subservient to modern residence. 



" In this inquiry, no mention has yet been made of the difference of climate, and 

 the influence it may be supposed to have on the different styles, because grace and 

 beauty of form, in ornament and decorations, may be considered, without always 



* The diffleultj' of adapting any order of columns to the windows of a house, is evident from the portico being some- 

 times confined to the ground floor only, sometimes extended two, or even three, floors, and sometimes raised on a 

 basement of arches, unknown to the Grecian character. A more classic expedient has been devised by the ingenious 

 aullior of the Antiquities of Grecia Magna, in his designs for Harford and Downham colleges ; but such lofty portion 

 of windows, though allowable in a public building, would be inapplicable to the purposes of a private house. 



