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

ARCHITECTURE.

LECTURE I.

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 pro-
gress of human genius, and application. These
qualities are no where more apparent than in
man’s inventions to supply the necessities which
continually surround him, and to secure himself
against those evils to which his degraded con-
dition exposes him. Time was, indeed, when
he dreaded no evil, nor sought security, but
safe in his lawful territories, ruled and reigned}
a paradise his palace. For man is usually sup-
posed to have dwelt beneath the spreading shade,
and to have resided in the verdant grove: or,
if he sought other than umbrageous retirement,
it was not the gloomy cavern, or the melan-
choly cave} neither antres vast, nor desarts
wild were his recess: his bower was
Chosen by the sovereign planter, when he framed
All things to roan’s delightful uie 5 the roof
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