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GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Paet I.
sive to them, and they woulcl probahly make every apartment exactly
of the dimensions required, and group them so that no one should under
any circumstances be confounded with another.
This, however, with all the details of their clomestic arts, must now
remain to us as mere speculation, and the architectural history of Greece
must be confined to her temples ancl monumental erections. These
sufiice to explain the nature and forms of the art, and to assign to it the
rank of the purest and most intellectual of all the styles which have
yet been invented or practised in any part of the world,
GRECIAN ARCHITECTURE.
Paet I.
sive to them, and they woulcl probahly make every apartment exactly
of the dimensions required, and group them so that no one should under
any circumstances be confounded with another.
This, however, with all the details of their clomestic arts, must now
remain to us as mere speculation, and the architectural history of Greece
must be confined to her temples ancl monumental erections. These
sufiice to explain the nature and forms of the art, and to assign to it the
rank of the purest and most intellectual of all the styles which have
yet been invented or practised in any part of the world,