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Thefe remarks, if retained in the memory, may help to
facilitate the trouble which neceflarily attends in drawing the
five orders. Befides, it is fometimes required of a workman to
give fome anfwer to his employer refpeding the general
proportions of the orders; and, if he is not acquainted with
as much of them as I have briefly laid down in the above ob-
fervations, he muft of courfe look very foolifh in the eye of his
querift, for he cannot then have recourfe to his book. But fur-
ther, a workman who has profefledly gone through the five
orders, by drawing them under the direction of fome mailer,
cuts but a poor figure in a conversation on the fubjcct of archi-
tecture and proportion, when perhaps, after all, he is unable to
recollect one Angle particular reflecting them.
Ofthe general Proportions of Front ifpieces adapted to the
Five Orders,
The Tufcan frontifpiece allows fix diameters from center
to center of each column or pilafter, as defcribed in Plate V.
and page 88.
The
facilitate the trouble which neceflarily attends in drawing the
five orders. Befides, it is fometimes required of a workman to
give fome anfwer to his employer refpeding the general
proportions of the orders; and, if he is not acquainted with
as much of them as I have briefly laid down in the above ob-
fervations, he muft of courfe look very foolifh in the eye of his
querift, for he cannot then have recourfe to his book. But fur-
ther, a workman who has profefledly gone through the five
orders, by drawing them under the direction of fome mailer,
cuts but a poor figure in a conversation on the fubjcct of archi-
tecture and proportion, when perhaps, after all, he is unable to
recollect one Angle particular reflecting them.
Ofthe general Proportions of Front ifpieces adapted to the
Five Orders,
The Tufcan frontifpiece allows fix diameters from center
to center of each column or pilafter, as defcribed in Plate V.
and page 88.
The