FRAGMENT XXIII. 





OF 



VARIETY. 



In delivering my opinion 



former work, I used 



expres 



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peering the humility of experience, which was ridiculed 

 b critics, but which I now repeat after a lapse of many 

 " I do not presume to establish principles in taste, but to 



Id 



record my practice, and the motives which led to it. This 



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with all the humility acquired by experience!' When I look back 



ited 



and 



Ih 



on the many hundred places 



formed, I can find no two which exactly resembled eacl 



but where some small similitude might perhaps be traced, th 



the 



r; 



existed 



ariety in the circumstances, the wish 



or 







the characters of the possessors, that it was impossible to class 

 them in such a manner as might lead to general use. Indeed, if 

 we consider that of the many thousand houses which have been 

 built, no one has ever been exactly copied in the plans for any 



future house; but 



contrary, that every pi 



eithe 



iiiuire nouse; nut, on the contrary, that every plan is either 

 taken from designs which have never been executed, or from the 



remains of ancient buildings, of who 



s 



rant 



we may ask, Cui bono 



we are almost igno 



and designs and works of art ever published 



to what good purpose are plans 



The only answ 





