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aqueduct ; whereas the arches at Blenheim are 

 turned to different ' points, and, with their piers, 

 cluster together like some of the old chimnies, 

 and thence acquire that richness which Vanbrugh 

 aimed at. 



P. 238.1. 18. As Mr. Knight has conceived me to have 

 been mistaken in every thing that I have advanced 

 with reaped to the temple of Vesta at Tivoli, and 

 as he has thought it worth his while to write an 

 additional section for the purpose of pointing out 

 those mistakes, I must endeavour to shew that 

 I am not so completely in the wrong, as he wishes 

 to make me appear.* 



Every author I presume has a right to expect, 

 that a candid adversary will pay some regard to 

 the general intention and spirit in which the part 

 he criticises is written ; and not lay hold of a par- 

 ticular section and consider it separately, as if it 

 had uo connexion with what had gone before. 

 There was no difficulty in discovering my inten- 

 tion ; for not to mention the general tenor of all 

 that had been said on the subject, the para- 

 graph immediately preceding the one which 

 relates to the temple at Tivoli, was written for 

 the express purpose of guarding against any mis- 

 conception.-|- 



* Analytical Inquiry, Part 1st. Chap. 5. Sec. 24. Second Edit. 

 As all that relates to the subject in question is contained in little 

 more than four pages, this general reference I imagine is sufficient. 



t Essay on Architecture and Buildings, P, 271. 



