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CHAP. VII. Of styles composed both of Grecian and Gothic architecture. 



sect. 1. Of mixing Grecian and Gothic architecture . 114- 



2. Of blending or compounding them 115 



Numerous buildings in this style erected and erecting in Scotland 117 

 Great mistake of the artist who first introduced it, and the bad taste 



and servile ideas of those who adopt it 118 



DIVISION II. THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN TO THE DIFFERENT 



SUBJECTS OF ARCHITECTURE. 



CHAP. I. Of public buildings 119 



sect. 1. Of churches 120 



General form of the masses in churches 120 



Of spires 121 



The form of churches being generally alike in all parts of the 



country, is a source of sublimity and moral instruction 122 



2. Of bridges 122 



Simplicity ought to be their characteristic in general cases, ornaments 

 being lost from the excess of light on all sides preventing 



examination of minutiae 123 



CHAP. II. Of private buildings. 



sect. 1. Of cottages 124 



The English cottage characterized 126 



The Scots cottage characterized . 129 



2. Of ornaments in cottages 133 



Decorations of the English cottage 133 



. Scots cottage 134 



3. Of the fire-places of cottages , 137 



4. Of improved and ornamental cottages 141 



5. Of villages 143 



Their origin 143 



Villages avowedly artificial 144 



Villages professedly irregular, in imitation of the most picturesque 



natural ones 145 



6. Of towns and cities 146 



Their different characters of maritime, inland, &c. 147 



