lis 



" 2L subject of common sense and feeling, which 

 '' each had made the particilar object of his in- 

 " vestigation, who shall hop^. to escape error in 

 *' any theoretical enquiry?" 



Whatever trifling differences may still exist 

 in our theories, it is no small satisfaction to me 

 to discover that many of m} opinions have been 

 confirmed, and many of m} thoughts repeated, 

 although new clothed, or disguised in other words, 

 by Mf. Knight, especially tlx)se on the subject of 

 Gothic Architecture, "^ on tl e absurdity of con- 



•* Observations, p. 207. 



" Whether we take our models 

 from a Grecian Temple, or from 

 a Gothic Ahhey, from a Castle, 

 or from a College, if the build- 

 ing does not look like a house, 

 and the residence of a nobleman, 

 it will be out of character. It 

 may perhaps be objected, that 

 we must exactly follow the mo- 

 dels of the style or date we pro- 

 fess to imitate, or else we make 

 apasticio or confusion of discord- 

 ant parts. Shall we imitate the 

 thing, and forget its applica- 

 tion? — No 3 let us rather, &c. 



Let us, in short, never 



forget that we are building a 

 house, whether we imitate the 



ENauiRY, p. 179- 



' GrecianTemples, Gothic Al- 

 hies, and feudal Castles, were all 

 well adapted to their respective 

 uses, circumstances, and situa- 

 tions . the distribution of the 

 parts subservient to the purposes 

 of the whole, and the ornaments 

 and decorations suited to the 

 character of the parts: and to 

 the manners, habits, and em- 

 ployments of the persons who 

 were to occupy them : but the 

 house of an English nobleman 

 of the eighteenth or nineteenth 

 century is neither a Grecian 

 Temple, a Gothic Abbey, nor 

 a feudal Castle j and if tlie style 

 of distribution or decoration of 



