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Excerpt from The Five Orders of Architecture, Vol. 3: Containing the Most Plain and Simple Rules for Drawing and Executing Them in the Purest Style; For the Use of Workmen; Exhibiting the Most Approved Modes of Applying Each in Practice, Suitably to the Climate of Great Britain
These Orders are, in modes of building, supposed to have been originally imitated from the primitive huts; being composed of such parts as were essential in their con struction; and, afterwards, adopted in the temples Of antiquity, which, though at first simple and rude, were, in the course of time, and by the ingenuity of succeeding architects, wrought Up and improved to such a pitch of perfection, on different models, that each was, by way of eminence, denominated an order. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
