The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (3.1789)

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ciples. Buildings, may be considered as right
lines, or composed of right lines, crossed by other
right lines at certain angles* and describing
solids, or apparent solids, either elevated on or
adjoining to each others and, extremes of lines
are mere points.
! By an inverse process we compose the whole;
sir st we sind the perspecftive situation of one
point, then of another beyond it; these uni-
ted make a line: in the same manner other
lines may be made ; these attached to the for-
mer, by degrees become a solid : solids raised
on each other, or adjoining to each other, com-
pofe buildings; whose extent, how largesoever,
is merely an addition of solids to solids, and
parts to parts, so related, that, having adjusted
one part truly, the others are easily determined.
The almost irrefistible effedl of regularity
maybe veryjustly inferred from hence; and
not less justly, the necessity of a careful begin-
ning, and orderly progression. Perspective, in
this respedt, is an emblem of life; how many
persons have proceeded from a point to a line,
and from lines to a superstrudture, whose ter-
mination they did not foresee, when the firsl
line was suggested, or the firsl: point conceded.
Since I have thus introduced analysis, I shall
requesr your attention, Ladies and GelSttle-
mem, to a few additional remarks. The per-
spedtivc.