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rendered: of these, 36 sculptured: one by Scopas. Now,
what can exceed the absurdity of the supposition, that
the renowned architect of the mausoleum, dedicated by
a queen to the memory of her husband, should have
undertook to flute merely one column of this celebrated
Temple, in his native city? But let it pass so; then it
follows, that of 127 columns, only 36 were fluted, the
rest left plain: this indeed would have made the Temple
a wonder to the world, but such a wonder, at which all
the world must have laughed. After this, surely I need
not say the true sense is, that 36 were, at once, (una) un-
dertaken and fluted by Scopas.
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CHAPTER VIL
STRICTURES OK THE NEW FRENCH METRE, AND THE
STANDARD OF THE PYRAMID PREFERABLE.
WHEN engaged in the four first chapters of this
treatise I had in contemplation the subject of this ; but
apprehensive of bewildering myself, as well as my rea-
ders, with a confusion of ideas, by connecting the present
subject with those discussions ; I thought it more
eligible to treat it after my remarks on the Ephesian
temple, which, answering the purpose of an illustration
of the foregoing chapters, I have here inserted, before I
pass to the subject of the new French metre ; with which
I shall conclude my metrical discussions.
The rage for innovation, that, of late years, has over
run the continent, at length extended itself even to the
serene abodes of the sciences, and prompted some of
the French literati (to whom, for late scientific discove-
ries we are somewhat indebted) to dash at an attempt to
change their national establishment of metrical quan-
tities
rendered: of these, 36 sculptured: one by Scopas. Now,
what can exceed the absurdity of the supposition, that
the renowned architect of the mausoleum, dedicated by
a queen to the memory of her husband, should have
undertook to flute merely one column of this celebrated
Temple, in his native city? But let it pass so; then it
follows, that of 127 columns, only 36 were fluted, the
rest left plain: this indeed would have made the Temple
a wonder to the world, but such a wonder, at which all
the world must have laughed. After this, surely I need
not say the true sense is, that 36 were, at once, (una) un-
dertaken and fluted by Scopas.
0--------
CHAPTER VIL
STRICTURES OK THE NEW FRENCH METRE, AND THE
STANDARD OF THE PYRAMID PREFERABLE.
WHEN engaged in the four first chapters of this
treatise I had in contemplation the subject of this ; but
apprehensive of bewildering myself, as well as my rea-
ders, with a confusion of ideas, by connecting the present
subject with those discussions ; I thought it more
eligible to treat it after my remarks on the Ephesian
temple, which, answering the purpose of an illustration
of the foregoing chapters, I have here inserted, before I
pass to the subject of the new French metre ; with which
I shall conclude my metrical discussions.
The rage for innovation, that, of late years, has over
run the continent, at length extended itself even to the
serene abodes of the sciences, and prompted some of
the French literati (to whom, for late scientific discove-
ries we are somewhat indebted) to dash at an attempt to
change their national establishment of metrical quan-
tities