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to buildings of very different sizes, and therefore in adapting the Hindu 
Architecture to the purposes of European houses, we have only to satisfy 
the eye of the painter with pleasing forms of beauty, and the eye of the 
mathematician with the safety of its construction; while that infinite 
variety of proportions, which this new style admits, may be adapted to 
every possible purpose, and every kind of material, unfettered by the 
restraint which so painfully operates in the Grecian or Gothic propor- 
tions . 11 
The fourth objection, respecting the want of space, will in some 
degree be answered by considering the expedients proposed; but this 
objection arises chiefly from the absurd idea , 1 that every house requires 
to be insulated and surrounded on all sides by its own territory. . If we 
consider the Pavilion as a Palace in a large town, we shall find it con- 
nected with its garden to the west, open to the Parade towards the 
north, and to the Steyn towards the south east, and only contiguous to 
the town by its offices towards the south. Since this degree of local 
freedom is only interrupted by one or two adjoining houses, it is not 
too much to suppose such a reasonable degree of accommodation, as 
may remove every objection, and give the Pavilion all the space that a 
Palace in a town can require. 
The fifth objection which I propose to answer is founded on the 
costliness of the ornaments that appear at first sight to belong to this 
style. On a more minute investigation it will be found, that the Hindu 
enrichments are much more simple than they appear, and far less costly 
than either those of the Grecian or Gothic styles. 
I trust it will not be contended, that all external ornaments and 
enrichments in Architecture are to be abolished ; and that the Palaces 
of our Princes are to resemble the villas of wealthy individuals, who 
after having studied amidst the finest remains of the ancient world, 
ig “TcJl liis'lVortatouid’idea, because I have so often witnessed the demolition of whole villages, that the 
mansion may stand in the middle of its park or lawn, to give it imaginary 
manv of our ancient Palaces derive true consequence and dignity from being contiguous to the ton n or it age, 
rSSuence is supposed to extenl The same mistaken pmd.ahty tor jnsdatmn would per aps 
extend to the demolition of Windsor, for being too near the Castle, and o 1 Pall Mall, lor bem a too neai fct. 
lame, wnu vu» nine. v,c..>.n 6 , „ 
stand in«- the general appearance of richness and magnificence in the outline. 
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