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ideas, may have made some of the parts, 

 especially in the summit, more broken or 

 more massive than was necessary for , ; the 

 purpose he intended : but his defects should 

 be -corrected, like those of Michael Angelo, 

 by a Raphael in architecture, not by a 

 Carlo Marat ; and even then, though the 

 style would be purer, and altogether more 

 excellent, it might lose something of original 

 character ; and of that, perhaps, insepara- 

 ble mixture of excellencies, and blemishes, 

 which sometimes appear to belong to each 

 other, and -to strengthen the general effect. 



Gneof the greatest difficulties with re- 

 spect to the summits; of our houses,, certainly 

 arises from the chimnies; which though 

 not very generally attended to in point of 

 outward form, very materially affect the 

 outline of all houses from the highest to the 

 lowest. In our northern climate every 

 house on a large scale must have, a num- 

 ber of chimnies ; and in order to answor 

 the purpose for which they are made, they 

 must be higher than the general level of the 

 summit : if, therefore, what I have said on 



