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fancy is at liber y or regular; in which a nice attention is 
required to see 
. The rire 7 ‘boilie ; in which it is a maxim to com- 
nd make the Siipatl gk big enough 
to neglect fome little places, in order ow more on th 
whole mafs, and to fhew the more aii ble places with 
the more es ; and to mark fome agitation in all the 
a he mo 
o th ie pling of bodies, ae! are either folid; which, 
and which muft b 
y nature ; € pr opor- 
pole i in er pieces, an 
they do, either by a voluntary motion, 
mutt be had to proportion them to their fitua- 
tion, 2nd to ftrengthen them by ee the equilibrium ; 
or by fome extraordinary power, as ma e 
roup ; and the nearnefs of figures, which we may call the 
chain, as it holds them together ; that the group be fultained 
by fomething loofe and diftin@ from it; and by the fame 
joined and continued to the other groups: and that the lights 
and fhadows be fo difpofed, as that we may at once fee the 
effe& = all the parts of the compofitio 
the aGions, in which forced atisies are to be 
ayes, and fimple nature fhewn in her moft advantageous 
ure. In weak and lean figures, the nudities are not to 
o the drapery ; which is to be adjufted, fo as it may 
appear ei garments, and not ftuffs loofely thrown on. The 
folds to be fo difpofed as to leave the great parts, in which 
the nudity may appear, free; ranging the little folds about 
the joints, and avoiding them on the relievo of the members. 
nd, laitly, to difpofe the draperies, by raifing the ftuff, 
and letting it fall eafily lightly, that the air, fultaining 
the folds, may let them foft. 
y, int arin are to he confidered the aétions, 
vary infinitely: the afpeéts, which in aétions of the 
me kind, may, by their difference, make a contraft: the 
adel ne as they meet above or under the fight, 
far or near. And, laftly, cuftom; which raging: indeed, 
to all ee of Paintings but is particularly to e regarde d 
n the ordonnance; to be managed difcreetly, however, and 
fliffnefs and pecans avoide 
an ae 0 Arcbitetre, is nearly the fame as in 
painting ; mpofition of a building, and the dif- 
dias oF ite ae th with regard to the whole, and to 
which 
Vitruvius defines ordonnance to be that which regulates 
the fize or magn ae of all the parts of a building with 
re{fpec to their 
is defin ne is oodles by M. Perrault, who takes the 
ordonnance to confilt in ie. divifion of the plan or {pot of 
Saphen on which the building is to be raifed; 2. e. in the 
apportioning or laying it out, agreeable to the intended 
ahenfions of the whole fabric ; which Mr, Evelyn exprefles 
in fewer words, by ‘¢ determining the meafure or what is 
afligned to compofe the feveral apartments.” 
n this f.,undation, ordonnance is the judicious contriv- 
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= of the plan or model; as when the court, hall, lodg. 
ings, &c. are neither t lar ey nor too little : but the 
houfe, or a little chamber, in a magnificent are the 
fault is in the ordonnance. 
is the ancients called taxis ; and diftinguifhed it from 
diathe ve difpofition ; which is, where allthe parts and mem- 
rs of a building are affigred their juft places and fituation 
with regard to their quality, office, rank, &c. without any 
regard to the dimenfions, or quantity: as, that the veftibule 
or porch be before the hall, the hall before the parlour, and 
that before the withdrawing-room, &c. The bed-cliambers, 
again, to look to the fun-rifing ; and libraries, galleries of 
paintings, and cabinets of curiofities, &c. to the north. 
ORDOVICES, in Ancient Geography, toca of that 
country which is now called North Wales, and contains the 
counties of Montgomery, Merioneth, Carnarvon, Denbigh 
and Flint. Thefe Ordovices, or as Tacitus calls them, 
Ordeuices, are fuppofed to have been originally of the fame 
tribe or nation with the Huicii of Warwickfhire, who were 
under fome kind of fubjeétion to the Cornavii; bi t the Huicii 
of North Wales, being a free and independent people, 
were called Ordh-Huici, or the free Huici. When they 
were invaded by the Romans, they fhewed a {pirit worthy 
of their name, and fought with great bravery in defence of 
their freedom and independence. Though they fuftained a 
great defeat from the Roman general Oftorius, in conjunc- 
tion with the Silures, they maintained the war for a con- 
this, the Romans had a {mall 
country; as Segontium now Carnarvon, Conovi 
Conway, and Vare now Bodvary, all mentioned in the 11th 
journey of Antoninus. The country of the Ordovices was 
comprehended in the Roman province, which was called 
Britannia Secunda. 
UNA, in Geography, a {mall town of Spain, in 
the province of Bifcay ; fituated to the S. of Bilbao, in-a 
pleafant valley, encompatfed on all fides by high and eae 
t has a wo parifh churches, a convent of monks, 
he interior cuftom-houfe of Bifcay 
is eftablifhed beeen ; but it only collects the duties aa mer- 
eared ace into Caftile; 42 miles S. of St, 
Seba 42° 56’. W. long. 2° gy! 
E, a ai f Sweden, in SDaleccclia ; 3; 60 miles 
N. . a‘ of Fahlun. 
in Mineralogy and Metallurgy, fignify thofe mineral 
fablances found j in the earth, from which metals are pro- 
cured. The ores of moft of the metals confilt of the metal 
combined with fome other fubftance, and the procefs by 
which the metal is feparated from the combined matter, is 
termed the reduétion of the ore. We fhall not here enume- 
rate the ores of the copa cea as they are amply treated 
of under the refpective m 
Affay and Anelyfis—This ‘ranch of operative chemiftry 
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