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a building would be seen to most advan- 

 tage. Let him again make the same change, 

 and consider it from other points whence 

 the projecting parts woukl be hidden, and 

 only tlie summit seen; and I believe he 

 would be convinced, that if Blenheim has 

 not tlie purer graces of the art, it has some- 

 thing, which, if there be no possibility of 

 allying it with those graces, should by no 

 jueans be sacrificed to them. 

 .[.r^Vhen I consider the cause whence the 

 striking effect of Blenheim, in all the more 

 distant vie\v'S, proceeds, I cannot but re- 

 flect with surprise, on the little attention that 

 }ias been paid to the summits of houses in 

 the country; even of those, of which every 

 other part is expensively decorated. As in 

 many of them the difference ofexpencewas 

 no objeqt, I can only account for it from 

 what I mentioned before — that the archi- 

 tecture of houses in towns, has been too 

 indiscriminately followed in the designs of 

 inansions in the country. The reason which 

 J then suggested, why tlie forms of the 

 summits are legs material in town houses 



