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OBSERVATIONS
ON THE MEANS NECESSARY FOR FURTHER ILLUSTRATING
THE
Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Middle Ages,
IN
A LETTER
FROM THE REV. JOHN MILNER, M.A. F.S.A.
TO
MR. TAYLOR.
SIR,
I CONGRATULATE the Public on your
attempt to elucidate the architecture of the
middle ages, b}r the collection of Essays
which you are about to publish on this sub-
ject; and I cannot refrain from pointing out
to those antiquaries, who, like myself, delight
in this branch of their characteristical science,
certain matters, which -seem to me particu-
larly deserving of their attention, for pro-
moting its progress, for fixing it on clear and
sure principles, and for furnishing artists with
Jules to go by, when constructing and re-
pairing works in the style in question.
lae first requisite for the better illustration
,jf this subject is, that those persons who
reat of it should come to a right undcr-
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ON THE MEANS NECESSARY FOR FURTHER ILLUSTRATING
THE
Ecclesiastical Architecture of the Middle Ages,
IN
A LETTER
FROM THE REV. JOHN MILNER, M.A. F.S.A.
TO
MR. TAYLOR.
SIR,
I CONGRATULATE the Public on your
attempt to elucidate the architecture of the
middle ages, b}r the collection of Essays
which you are about to publish on this sub-
ject; and I cannot refrain from pointing out
to those antiquaries, who, like myself, delight
in this branch of their characteristical science,
certain matters, which -seem to me particu-
larly deserving of their attention, for pro-
moting its progress, for fixing it on clear and
sure principles, and for furnishing artists with
Jules to go by, when constructing and re-
pairing works in the style in question.
lae first requisite for the better illustration
,jf this subject is, that those persons who
reat of it should come to a right undcr-
b 2