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OF
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
CHAPTER Vili.
OF THE EXTERNAL DIM EUStOtif.
THE history of this Temple comes down to us, on
Metta record, as a work that commanded the highest
ì »pect and universal admiration of the. whole people of
God : a work that impressed the minds of foreign visi-
tors, with inexpressible pleasure ; that overpowered the
sensibility of an arrompí ished crowned head, accustom-
ed even to Asiatic magnificence, in her own country: a
work, in short, devised by the most knowing and wisest
of men: and executed by an architect, whom, in his
!'>m, he selected from amongst the most accom-
plished, that the* nursery of the arts and sciences then
produced. This Temple, so pleasing even to heaven, as
to be permitted to be called, the house of the Lord ; is
flic subject of which I now undertake to treat Not
that I shall vainly attempt to give an adequate descrip-
tion of it's majestic perfections, hut only to bend my
most earnest and respectful endeavours, to explore, as
many particulars of that astonishing paragon, as the
means within my reach, may enable me.
After many years amusement, amongst the com-
mentators of Vitruvius, and some, rather successful,
attempts, to dispel the mist, they have spread over that
author's documents ; I lately began to feel something
O like
OF
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
CHAPTER Vili.
OF THE EXTERNAL DIM EUStOtif.
THE history of this Temple comes down to us, on
Metta record, as a work that commanded the highest
ì »pect and universal admiration of the. whole people of
God : a work that impressed the minds of foreign visi-
tors, with inexpressible pleasure ; that overpowered the
sensibility of an arrompí ished crowned head, accustom-
ed even to Asiatic magnificence, in her own country: a
work, in short, devised by the most knowing and wisest
of men: and executed by an architect, whom, in his
!'>m, he selected from amongst the most accom-
plished, that the* nursery of the arts and sciences then
produced. This Temple, so pleasing even to heaven, as
to be permitted to be called, the house of the Lord ; is
flic subject of which I now undertake to treat Not
that I shall vainly attempt to give an adequate descrip-
tion of it's majestic perfections, hut only to bend my
most earnest and respectful endeavours, to explore, as
many particulars of that astonishing paragon, as the
means within my reach, may enable me.
After many years amusement, amongst the com-
mentators of Vitruvius, and some, rather successful,
attempts, to dispel the mist, they have spread over that
author's documents ; I lately began to feel something
O like