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objects that they are " thirdly, to have a variety 

 in the direction of the parts, but fourthly, to 

 have those parts not angulay, but melted as it 

 were into each other," the question is whether 

 this principle (for it* is only one) can be applied in 

 any, and in what degree to the temple of Tivoli ; 

 which, as it is well known, is a circular building, 

 surrounded by columns in the same direction. 

 The forms of temples, as indeed of all buildings, 

 may be divided into two general classes : circular 

 or round ; and square or angular : the second> 

 by far the most numerous, is excluded by the 

 words lt not angular." The principle therefore, 

 if applicable at all, must be applied to round 

 buildings ; and if the spirit of what Mr. Burke 

 has said be attended to, I believe it will apply as 

 much as can be expected in such cases : for the 

 lines in all circular objects have a perpetual, though 

 uniform variation ; and as they are constantly and 

 insensibly retiring from the eye, they answer to 

 the description of " melting as it were into each 

 other," much more than the lines in square, that 

 is, in any other buildings. 



I must here make my reader acquainted with 

 some dextrous manoeuvres of my antagonist. The 

 principle in discussion, as 1 began by remarking, 

 though divided into two parts, is only one : for it 

 is obvious that if you take the third part singly, 

 without the limitation in the fourth, you totally 

 pervert Mr. Burke's manifest intention. This, 

 however, is precisely what Mr. Knight has done; 



