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tecturc, with finely proportioned and well 

 distributed rooms, and with convenient 

 offices, and looks no turther, the assistance 

 of an architect, though always highly use- 

 ful, is hardly necessary. A number of 

 elevations and plans of such houses, of dif- 

 ferent forms and sizes, have been published; 

 or he may look at those which have been 

 completed, observe their appearance and 

 distribution, and suit himself: the estimate 

 a common builder can make as well as a 

 Fajladio. 



1 am very far from intending by what I 

 have just said, to undervalue a profession 

 -which I highly respect, or to suppose it 

 unnecessary ; on the contrary, I am very 

 anxious to shew, that whoever wishes his 

 l>uildings to be real decorations to his 

 place, cannot do without an architect ; and 

 by an architect I do not mean a mere 

 builder, but one who has studied landscape 

 as well as architecture, who is no less fond 

 of it than of his own profession, and who 

 feels that each different situation, requires 

 a different disposition of the several parts. 



