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to any thing like dignity in an edifice of moderate size. The 

 smallest parish churches of the old Saxon architecture, with thick, 

 rude, unchiseled walls, strong enough to have needed no buttress- 

 es, and therefore having none a low square tower or belfry, with 

 flat, lead roof, and a very few irregularly-placed, deep, round- 

 arched windows and portals, I have found far more inspiring of 

 the solemnity of humility which should accompany the formal 

 worship of the Almighty, tBan most of the very large churches 

 that have been built with the greater wealth and more finical 

 taste of later generations. 



