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doubt but our churches would refemble die 

 private houfes of Roman citizens. Our 

 buildings muft be as Vitruvian, as writings 

 in the days of Erafmus were obliged to be 

 Ciceronian. Yet confined as our archi- 

 tects are to few models, they are far from 

 having made all the ufe they might of thofe 

 they pofTcfs. There are variations enough 

 to be flruck out to furnifh new fcenes of 

 fingular beauty. The application of log- 

 gias, arcades, terrafles and flights of fleps, 

 at different ftages of a building, particularly 

 in fuch fituations as Whitehall to the river, 

 v/ould have a magnificent efFe61:. It is true, 

 our climate and the expence of building in 

 England are great reflri6lions on imagina- 

 tion ; but when one talks of the extent of 

 which architecture is capable, one mufl fup- 

 pofe that pomp and beauty are the princi- 

 pal obje6ls ; one fpeaks of palaces and pub- 

 lic buildings ; not of fliops and fm.all 

 houfes — but I mufl reflrain this difTerta- 

 tion, and come to the hiiloric part, which 

 will lie in a fmall conipafs. 



Felibien took great pains to afcertain the 

 revival of architecture, after the deftrudion 

 of the true tafle by the inundation of the 



northern 



