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become picturesque, the separate parts of 

 which have nothing of that character. Why 

 are they so ? Because they r.,re built of va- 

 rious heights, in various directions, and he- 

 cause those variations are sudden and irre- 

 gular. Architects, like painters, (or to speak 

 more justly, like men of genius and obser- 

 vation in every art,) have in many cases 

 taken advantage of the effects of accident, 

 and have converted the mere shifts of men 

 who went the nearest way to work, into 

 sources of beauty and decoration. An ir- 

 regular room, for instance, detached from 

 the body of the house, with a low covered 

 passage to it, may have given to architects 

 the idea of pavillions, connected with the 

 house by arcades, or colonnades; but in the 

 use which they have made of these acci- 

 dents, they have proceeded according to 

 the genius of their own art. That of paintr 

 mg admits, and often delights in irregula- 

 rity : architecture, though, like other £.rts,, 

 it studies variety, yet it must in generajl 

 consider that variety as subject to symmetry, 

 especially in buildings on a large scale, aud 



