MJMMENTS
OF
ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE.
PART THE FIRST,
The study of Architecture has, in every
enlightened age, and by every civilized na-
tion, been held in very honourable esteem;
as a necessary and pleasing science, and of
evident utility.
When we consider it as improved by the
Greeks about the time of Pericles, its per-
fection and beauty, how conspicuously it
exhibited the liberality, splendour, and
magnificence of those concerned in erect-
ing structures, the remains of which asto-
nish us; and how highly flattering it was
to the mind of man in an age of splendour,
to raise edifices which should strike be-
OF
ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE.
PART THE FIRST,
The study of Architecture has, in every
enlightened age, and by every civilized na-
tion, been held in very honourable esteem;
as a necessary and pleasing science, and of
evident utility.
When we consider it as improved by the
Greeks about the time of Pericles, its per-
fection and beauty, how conspicuously it
exhibited the liberality, splendour, and
magnificence of those concerned in erect-
ing structures, the remains of which asto-
nish us; and how highly flattering it was
to the mind of man in an age of splendour,
to raise edifices which should strike be-