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that of the house, it is very essential to 

 fix with some precision what that charac- 

 ter ought to be; yet the various tastes of 

 successive ages have so blended opposite 

 styles of architecture, that it is often dif- 

 ficult, in an old house, to determine the 

 date to which its true character belongs. 

 From the external effect one might pro- 

 nounce that there are only two charac- oniy two 

 ters in buildings; the one may be called in 



1 ' 7 • / Huildings. 



ptrpendicular, and the other norizontal. 



Under the first I class all buildings erected Perpendi- 

 cular. 

 in England before and during the early 



part of Queen Elizabeth's reign, whether 

 deemed Saracenic, Saxon, Norman, or - 

 the Gothic of the thirteenth and four- 

 teenth centuries; and even that peculiar 

 kind called Queen Elizabeth's Gothic, in 

 which turrets prevailed, though battle- 

 ments were discarded, and Grecian co- 

 lumns occasionally introduced. Under 

 the horizontal character I include all edi- Horizontal 

 fices built since the introduction of a more 

 regular architecture, whether it copies 

 the remains of Grecian or Roman models. 

 There is, indeed, a third kind, in which 



Lines. 



