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improvements in the proportion of columns. Had im-
provements, however, exilted in fuch early times, Homer
who was greatly pofterior to them, would certainly have made
mention of fomething of the kind; but in all his writings he
gives us no account of any thing like columns of hone, but ufes
a word which would rather incline us to think that his columns
were nothing more than bare polls.”
This account looks as if there had been neither Hone co-
lumns nor temples till after Homer’s days. For if the architec-
ture among the Greeks in thofe days confuted of bare polls, we
cannot fuppofe that thofe magnificent temples which they dedi-
cated to their gods were fo poor and plain; neither can we ima-
gine that if there had been fuch fine temples in his time, that he
would have left them unnoticed. It would feem as if the
Greeks had borrowed their firll notions of temples to worlhip
their gods in, and alfo their architecture to adorn them with,
from that at Jerufalem.
Agreeable to this view, the above quoted author fays: “ It
is remarkable that improvements in architecture did not take
place in any nation till after, or about, the time that Jerufalem
was taken by Nebuchadnezzar. The grandelt buildings amonglt
the AiTyrians feem to have owed their exiHence to this mo-
* Hemer was born above nine hundred years before the Chriftian sera.
R narch;
improvements in the proportion of columns. Had im-
provements, however, exilted in fuch early times, Homer
who was greatly pofterior to them, would certainly have made
mention of fomething of the kind; but in all his writings he
gives us no account of any thing like columns of hone, but ufes
a word which would rather incline us to think that his columns
were nothing more than bare polls.”
This account looks as if there had been neither Hone co-
lumns nor temples till after Homer’s days. For if the architec-
ture among the Greeks in thofe days confuted of bare polls, we
cannot fuppofe that thofe magnificent temples which they dedi-
cated to their gods were fo poor and plain; neither can we ima-
gine that if there had been fuch fine temples in his time, that he
would have left them unnoticed. It would feem as if the
Greeks had borrowed their firll notions of temples to worlhip
their gods in, and alfo their architecture to adorn them with,
from that at Jerufalem.
Agreeable to this view, the above quoted author fays: “ It
is remarkable that improvements in architecture did not take
place in any nation till after, or about, the time that Jerufalem
was taken by Nebuchadnezzar. The grandelt buildings amonglt
the AiTyrians feem to have owed their exiHence to this mo-
* Hemer was born above nine hundred years before the Chriftian sera.
R narch;