70 ARCHITECTURE. BOOK I. 



The lower classes of mankind are commonly allowed two 

 apartments to each pair or family ; in some cases, however, 

 with additional apartments ; placed either close under the ridge 

 of the roof, as what are called garrets ; or added externally, as 

 sheds or hovels. 



The middling and higher classes of mankind require a consi- ^ 

 derable number of apartments ; because, having more time and 

 wealth, they consequently can enjoy more frequently, and in a 

 greater degree, the luxury of assembling their friends. This 

 requires those apartments, and that arrangement and con- 

 nexion, which we find in the houses of private gentlemen. This 

 class possessing or having cultivated a taste for beauty, orna- 

 ment is added to their apartments, either by elegance in the 

 architectural finishing, or by introducing fine furniture, pic- 

 tures, &c. and generally in both ways. 



The highest classes have all the apartments of the middling 

 class, but frequently on a larger scale and more richly deco- 

 rated : often, too, they add other apartments, as the gallery, 

 oratory, zvardrobe, &c. though all these are not now necessarily 

 confined to the prince or the peer. 



These remarks are merely introduced to shew, that there can 

 be no fixed rule for determining the limits of conveniency ; for 



