Rudiments of ancient architecture, containing an historical account of the five orders, with their proportions, and examples of each from antiques also, extracts from Vitruvius, Pliny, &c. relative to the buildings of the ancients (London, 1810 (4. Aufl.))

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-