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as this external simplicity is preserved. For this reason Inigo Jones, 
and our early Architects in the Grecian style, took their models from 
buildings of later date (chiefly Roman), where the different floors are 
marked by different orders placed one over another. 
As the taste for Grecian Architecture became more correct, and by 
the works of Stuart and others, the more simple original models be- 
came better known in England : various attempts have been made to 
adopt it in modern houses ; but a Palace, or even a moderate sized resi- 
dence, cannot be entirely surrounded by a peristyle, like a Grecian 
Temple; and therefore the portico alone has been generally adopted.' 
' The difficulty of adapting any order of Columns to the windows of a house is evident from the portico being 
sometimes confined to the ground floor only, sometimes extended through two or even three floors, and some- 
times raised on a basement of arches, unknown to the Grecian character. A more classic expedient has been 
devised by the ingenious Author of the Antiquities of Grecia Magna, in his Designs for Harford and Downham 
Colleges ; but such lofty portion of windows, though allowable in a public building, would be inapplicable to 
the purposes of a private house. 
