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operate with the understanding, in approving the fitness of the 

 whole. The same idea will apply in the case of comparing the 

 size of the apartments with the windows and other things in the 

 external appearance of the house (a matter which at present 

 seems least of all attended to) ; to their magnitude when com- 

 pared with each other; to the furniture, the ornaments, and 

 indeed to every thing in a building. 



Symmetry is a beauty which may be, and often is intro- 

 duced into buildings of the lowest order. It is so easy to apply 

 it, that no directions are required. 



Uniformity. — Architecture is very capable of this beauty ; 

 it appears in colonnades, in ranges of windows, in projections, 

 in towers of similar forms, and chimney tops, &c. Uniformity 

 generally pleases more than variety in parts of a building which 

 are always used for one purpose ; as windows, doors, &c. It 

 is not meant, however, that there should be a set form of these 

 parts to be used in every building, but merely that one form of 

 these parts should generally prevail wherever it is introduced : 

 in larger buildings, this does not always hold; for as some or 

 all of the upper floors generally contain the smallest and lowest 

 apartments, the windows may frequently be made of a form 

 somewhat different from the others. 



