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become picturesque, the separate parts of 

 which have nothing of that character. Why 

 are they so ? Because they are built of ra- 

 rious heights, in various directions, and be- 

 cause those variations are sudden and irre- 

 gular. Architects, like painters, (or to speak 

 more justl3% like men of genius and obser- 

 vation in every art,) have in many cases, 

 taken advantage of the effects of accident, 

 and have converted tlie mere shifts of men 

 Avho went the nearest way to work, into 

 sources of beauty and decoration. An ir- 

 regular room, for instance, detached from 

 the body of the house, with a low covered 

 passage to it, may have given to architects 

 the idea of pavillions, connected with the 

 house by arcades, or colonnades; but in the 

 use winch they have made of these acci^ 

 dents, they have proceeded according to 

 the genius of their own art. That of paint* 

 ing admits, and often delights in irregula- 

 rity : architecture, though, hke other arts, 

 it studies variety, yet it must in general 

 consider tli^t variety as subject to symmetry, 

 especially in buildings on a large scale, apd 



