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PRINCIPLES
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ARCHITECTURE.
LECTURE 1.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
If "the proper study of mankind is man," a very
proper part of that study, is, to trace the efforts
of human ingenuity, and the progress of human
genius, and application. These qualities, are no where
more apparent, than in man's inventions to sup-
ply the necessities which continually surround him,
and to secure himself againft thofe evils to which
his present condition exposes him. Time was, in-
deed, when he dreaded no evil, nor sought secu-
rity, but safe in his lawful territories, there ruled
and reigned ; a paradise his palace ! For the original
dwelling of man is usually supposed to have been
beneath the spreading shade, or under the ver-
dant grove: or, if he sought other retirement, it
was not in the gloomy cavern, or the melancholy
cave j neither in antres vast, nor desarts wild j his
bower was
Vol. hi. Edit, 7. B Chofen
o f
ARCHITECTURE.
LECTURE 1.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
If "the proper study of mankind is man," a very
proper part of that study, is, to trace the efforts
of human ingenuity, and the progress of human
genius, and application. These qualities, are no where
more apparent, than in man's inventions to sup-
ply the necessities which continually surround him,
and to secure himself againft thofe evils to which
his present condition exposes him. Time was, in-
deed, when he dreaded no evil, nor sought secu-
rity, but safe in his lawful territories, there ruled
and reigned ; a paradise his palace ! For the original
dwelling of man is usually supposed to have been
beneath the spreading shade, or under the ver-
dant grove: or, if he sought other retirement, it
was not in the gloomy cavern, or the melancholy
cave j neither in antres vast, nor desarts wild j his
bower was
Vol. hi. Edit, 7. B Chofen