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...been gradually deduced from the classicaI. CHAPTER II. ON MECHANICAL AND DECORATIVE CONSTRUCTION. I THE eye, even of an unpractised observer, when viewing...and the more completely this is effected, the more satisfactory becomes the result. To be sure this apparent frame is often* totally different from the...

...of a Grecian edifice that render it beautiful ; the beauty of proportion is independent of these. " The eye, even of an unpractised observer, when viewing...corresponding pleasure when that is the case." Hence, if the entablature, which is the only weight that appears, be heavy, the column which supports it must...