Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Rudiments of Ancient Architecture: Containing an Historical Account of the Five Orders, With Their Proportions and Examples of Each From the Antiques; Also Vitruvius on the Temples and Intercolumniations, &C. Of the Ancients
Persons of the moft exalted fiations have honoured it as fiudents, and thought it not beneath them to attend to its rules.
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