GRECIAN STYLE. 
Under this character are included all Buildings in England, for which 
models have been furnished from Greece, from Italy, from Syria, and 
from other countries unmixed with the Gothic Style; for in all these 
countries some intermixture of style and dates in what is called the 
Grecian Character may be discovered: and we are apt to consider as 
good specimens those Buildings in which the greatest simplicity prevails, 
or in other words, those that are most free from mixture. Simplicity 
is not less necessary in the Gothic than in the Grecian Style: yet it 
creates great difficulty in its application in both, if no mixture of dates 
is to be allowed in the respective styles of each. Thus the English 
Antiquary will discover, and perhaps be offended at the mixture of Saxon, 
Norman, and the several dates of subsequent Buildings called Gothic : 
but the man of taste will discover beauty in the combination of different 
forms in one great pile, or he must turn with disgust from every Cathe- 
dral and Abbey in the kingdom. In like manner the traveller and con- 
noisseur in Grecian Antiquities will not only object to more than one of 
the five orders in the same buildings, but will detect the intermixture 
of even the minutest parts in detail ; while the man of taste will discover 
beauty and grace in combination of forms, for which there is not autho- 
rity in the early, and therefore most simple edifices of those countries. 
It is by such combinations only that the Grecian Style can be made ap- 
plicable to the purposes of modern habitation. 
The best models of pure and simple Grecian Architecture were 
Temples, many without a roof, and all without windows or chimneys. 
Such models might be imitated in our Churches or Public Edifices ; but 
Houses built from such models would become inconvenient in proportion 
