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Chap. III.
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.
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low level as their other arts, it is rich, ornamental, and appro-
priate for domestic purposes, but ephemeral and totally wanting
in dignity and grandeur of conception. Still it is pleasing,
because truthful; but after all, its great merit in the eyes of
the student of architecture will probably turn out to rest on
the light it throws on the earlier styles, and on the ethno-
graphic relations of China to the surrounding nations of
Eastern Asia.
DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.
485
low level as their other arts, it is rich, ornamental, and appro-
priate for domestic purposes, but ephemeral and totally wanting
in dignity and grandeur of conception. Still it is pleasing,
because truthful; but after all, its great merit in the eyes of
the student of architecture will probably turn out to rest on
the light it throws on the earlier styles, and on the ethno-
graphic relations of China to the surrounding nations of
Eastern Asia.