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veneering of a knife-cafe, which I muft leave him to do as
neceflity may require.
Of the Nature and Conjlrudiion of Hip and Elliptic Domes
for Beds.
Domes of various kinds have, for many ages pail, been
introduced into elegant and magnificent buildings, on account
of their graceful effect and majeftic appearance.
1 am of opinion that the notion of employing domes for
the roofs of grand buildings, was firft fuggefted by the appear-
ance of the hemifphere furrounding our earth or horizon,
forming a canopy or roof to the globe; which if it were fo,
domes had their origin from a truly fublime and magnificent
idea.
The ufe of domes for the tops of beds is of much later
date than for buildings; but it is certain, whoever he was that
firft employed domes for the tops of beds, he muff be conlidered
as a perfon of enlarged ideas, as no other top or roof for a
genteel bed can equal them : therefore we fee them generally
ufed for hate beds, where, it is certain, both grandeur and bold
effect are effentially requifite.
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veneering of a knife-cafe, which I muft leave him to do as
neceflity may require.
Of the Nature and Conjlrudiion of Hip and Elliptic Domes
for Beds.
Domes of various kinds have, for many ages pail, been
introduced into elegant and magnificent buildings, on account
of their graceful effect and majeftic appearance.
1 am of opinion that the notion of employing domes for
the roofs of grand buildings, was firft fuggefted by the appear-
ance of the hemifphere furrounding our earth or horizon,
forming a canopy or roof to the globe; which if it were fo,
domes had their origin from a truly fublime and magnificent
idea.
The ufe of domes for the tops of beds is of much later
date than for buildings; but it is certain, whoever he was that
firft employed domes for the tops of beds, he muff be conlidered
as a perfon of enlarged ideas, as no other top or roof for a
genteel bed can equal them : therefore we fee them generally
ufed for hate beds, where, it is certain, both grandeur and bold
effect are effentially requifite.
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