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Excerpt from An Essay in Defence of Ancient Architecture, or a Parallel of the Ancient Buildings With the Modern: Shewing the Beauty and Harmony of the Former, and the Irregularity of the Latter; With Impartial Reflections on the Reasons of the Abuses Introduced by Our Present Builders
There is a particular erroneous Folly, which feems to be a Principle imbibed in Minority, which too many (who are Readers only) are guilty of: It is nor only that unaccountable Error in difplaying their Judgment by proceeding to read in or near the latter End of a Treatife before having perus'd the Beginning but from thence falling mm a more unpardonable Falfhood, which is to judge from that place only of the Truth or Faife hood, the valuable or invaluable Parts of it, when per haps they've not been at the trouble of fo much as ex. Amining the title-page. -there 15 likewife a Proceeding as unjufiifiable as the former, which is, pretending to judge of a Work by even the Name or Bufinefs of an Author and as thefe are in their cfieem, fo they either praife or condemn, it may be, what they've never feen, much 1e examiri'd.
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