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A plain stone building, may not only 

 be very beautiful, but by many per- 

 sons be thought peculiarly so from its 

 simplicity ; but were an architect ta 

 decorate the shafts, as well as the ca- 

 pitals of his columns, and all the smooth 

 stone work of his house or temple, there 

 are few people who would not be sensible 

 of the difference between a beautiful build- 

 ing, and one richly ornamented. This, in 

 m\ r mind, is the spirit of that famous re- 

 proof of Apelles (among all the painters 

 of antiquity the most renowned for beauty) 

 to one of his scholars who was loading a 

 Helen with ornaments; "Young man," 

 said he, " not being able to paint her 

 beautiful, you have made her rich/' 



All that has just been said on the effect, 

 which, in objects of sight, a due propor- 

 tion of roughness and sharpness gives to 

 smoothness, as likewise on the danger of 

 making these two qualities too predomi- 

 nant, ma}', I think, be very aptly illus- 

 trated by means of another sense. Dis- 

 cords in music, which are analagous to- 



