CONTENTS. 



PART III.— Architecture. 



PACE 



INTRODUCTION. 



Fundamental principles of this art 67 



Arrangement of this part of the work 67 



DIVISION I. THE THEORY OF DESIGN IN ARCHITECTURE. 



CHAP. I. Of utility and convenience. 



In buildings for the inferior animals 69 



In buildings for the different classes of mankind 70 



CHAP. II. Of beauty in architecture 71 



Truth, utility, and fitness 72 



Fitness the most general beauty in buildings 73 



Symmetry — uniformity 74 



Unity, order, variety, intricacy, and harmony 75 



Harmony the most exquisite beauty in buildings 76 



CHAP. III. Of character in architecture. 



Grandeur, sublimity, and beauty — how produced 78 



Antique beauty, melancholy, &c 79 



Every building ought to assume a decided character, and one ex- 

 pressive of its use 79 



CHAP. IV. Of the manner or style of execution in architecture 79 



Two manners have long prevailed — the Grecian and the Gothic .... 79 



General characteristics of each 80 



Advantages of inquiring into the origin of these styles or manners ... 82 



CHAP. V. Of the Grecian style of architecture 83 



Buildings in the early ages were probably constructed of timber ... 83 

 Grecian buildings, we may suppose, were formed of timber regularly 



hewn 83 



This rendered plausible from the members of Grecian architecture .. 84 

 Grecian architecture exemplified in the antient Athenian temples, 



to which this mode of building was first applied 85 



Afterwards applied to the houses of individuals 86 



And thus its characteristic simplicity injured even in Greece 86 



And the style much corrupted by the Romans 87 



Roman architecture imitated in Britain, and not the chaste Grecian 



models 88 



