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chiaes, and U tonsils, engraved from the originals drawn in 

 China ; to which is annexed a description of their Temples, 

 Houses, Gardens, &c. London. 1757. Large fcl. 



2. A treatise on Civil Architecture. London, folio. This 

 reached a third Edition 



3. Plans, Elevations, Sections, and perspective views of the 

 Gardens and Buildings at Kcw. London. 1763, and 1765. 

 Folio, 



4. Dissertations on Oriental Gardening. London. 1744. 4to. 



As an Architect Sir William Chambers stands high ; the 

 portico of Lord Besborough's Villa is particularly correct and 

 elegant ; the Grecian Mansion of the Marquis of Abercorn at 

 Duddingtone near Edinburgh ; and the Gothic oqe of Milton 

 Abbey in Dorsetshire, are monuments of his taste. Somerset 

 House was a failure. His Chinese Gardening was puerile in 

 the extreem. 



JOSEPH SPENCE, D. D. was born in 1698. He was edu- 

 cated at Winchester School, and proceeded thence to New 

 College, Oxford, of which he became a Fellow. He acquired 

 the friendship of Pope from an " Essay" published in 1727, on 

 that poet's Odyssey, on the following year he was elected Pro- 

 fessor of Poetry at Oxford and held that appointment until 

 1738. In 1731 he published an Account of the Stephen Duck, 

 and procured for him the living of Byfleet. About the same 

 period he travelled with the Earl of Lincoln, and on his return 

 was presented with the lixing of Great Horvvood in Bucking-, 

 hamshire ; and soon afterwards was appointed Professor of 

 Modern History. In 1747 he published " Polymetis, or En- 

 quiry into the agreement between the works of the Roman 

 Poets, and the remains of ancient Artists." In 1764 he received 



