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14 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
portions, and terms of this art, and may
be recommended as a good work of the
kind for the use of beginners. The five
orders, according to Palladios system, are
explained in a little treatise, and illustrated
in a set of neat engravings by Cypriam*.
Scamozzi’s Lives of the principal Archi-
tects, preceded by a dissertation on the
art in general, is an useful and very enter-
taining work.
But the man who wishes to have accu-
rate ideas and comprehensive notions on
this subject, must not content himself with
these nor indeed with any modern compo-
sitions. He must have recourse to the an-
cients—inventas qui vitam excoluere per artes
—and in their writings and monuments
study the best models and the fairest spe-
cimens of architectural beauty. Rollin's
* Roma 1801.
portions, and terms of this art, and may
be recommended as a good work of the
kind for the use of beginners. The five
orders, according to Palladios system, are
explained in a little treatise, and illustrated
in a set of neat engravings by Cypriam*.
Scamozzi’s Lives of the principal Archi-
tects, preceded by a dissertation on the
art in general, is an useful and very enter-
taining work.
But the man who wishes to have accu-
rate ideas and comprehensive notions on
this subject, must not content himself with
these nor indeed with any modern compo-
sitions. He must have recourse to the an-
cients—inventas qui vitam excoluere per artes
—and in their writings and monuments
study the best models and the fairest spe-
cimens of architectural beauty. Rollin's
* Roma 1801.