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particular purposes of his own art ; a sus- 

 picion which narrow-minded artists in every 

 line will often justify. But the architect, 

 would apparently be making a sacrifice of 

 his own art to that of painting, though in 

 reality he would have the solid glory of 

 combining them both, and of following the 

 example of the greatest painters ; some of 

 whom united the two professions, while 

 numbers of them displayed in their pic- 

 tures the beauty and the grandeur, arising 

 from a union of the two arts. 



Much of the naked solitary appearance 

 of houses, is owing to the prac tice of totally 

 concealing, nay sometimes of burying, all 

 the offices under ground, and that by way 

 of giving consequence to the mansion : but 

 though exceptions may arise from par- 

 ticular situations and circumstances, yet, 

 in general, nothing contributes so much to 

 give both variety and consequence to the 

 principal building, as the accompaniment, 

 and, as it were, the attendance of the infe- 

 rior parts in their different gradations. It 



