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It is unfortunate that so many of our cathedrals combine 

 the Perpendicular with the earlier Gothic styles. This could 

 not be avoided when finished at different periods ; but of all 

 offensive anomalies, none are so inexcusable as the introduc- 

 tion of mock Greek, or cinque-cento, additions to a Gothic 

 church. The insertion of Perpendicular tracery into an older 

 Decorated, or Early English, window, has also a disagreeable 

 effect, as has the juxtaposition of windows of those three 

 periods ; and the facade of Milan Cathedral, grand as it is, 

 shows how injudicious is the attempt to combine two different 

 styles. There has also been considerable difficulty in making 

 the Roman arch accord with the character of Greek architec- 

 ture ; and much talent has been exercised, (not always satis- 

 factorily,) in combining angles and right lines with curves. 



99. The attempts to unite two different styles should be 

 carefully avoided, as well as the introduction of any feature of 

 architecture in a position ill suited to it. This last is an error 

 of common occurrence, which is not confined to modern times. 

 We see in many buildings a segmental arch (which too is 

 generally disagreeable in its character) introduced amono- 

 pointed, or round, arches ; and what is worse, with nothino- to 



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correspond to its general lines, or its mouldings, in the jambs, 

 against which it abruptly abuts ; as if they had been built over 

 its two ends at a later time. An arch too, whether circular, 

 pointed, or segmental, which is carried up so near to the 

 horizontal summit of a wall as only to leave a narrow space 



