Alberti, Leone Battista, Architecture, 1755

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              <s>THE
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              ARCHITECTURE
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              OF
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              Leone Batiſta Alberti.
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              <s>BOOK II. CHAP. I.</s>
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              Treating of the Materials. </s>
              <s>That no Man ought to begin a Building haſtily
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              but ſhould firſt take a good deal of Time to conſider, and revolve in his Mind
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              all the Qualities and Requiſites of ſuch a Work: And that he ſhould carefull
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              review and examine, with the Advice of proper Judges, the whole Structuly
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              in itſelf, and the Proportions and Meaſures of every diſtinct Part, not o re
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              in Draughts or Paintings, but in actual Models of Wood or ſome othe Sunly
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              ſtance, that when he has finiſh'd his Building, he may not repent of his Labour.
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              <s>I do not think the Labour and
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              Expence of a Building to be en­
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              ter'd upon in a hurry; as well
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              for ſeveral other Reaſons, as
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              alſo becauſe a Man's Honour and
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              Reputation ſuffers by it. </s>
              <s>For as a Deſign
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              well and compleatly finiſh'd brings Praiſe to
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              him that has employ'd his Pains and Study in
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              the Work; ſo if in any particular the Author
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              ſeems to have been wanting, either of Art or
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              Prudence, it detracts very much from that
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              Praiſe, and from his Reputation. </s>
              <s>And indeed
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              the Beauties or Faults of Edifices, eſpecially
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              publick ones, are in a Manner clear and mani­
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              feſt to every body; and (I know not how it
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              happens) any Thing amiſs ſooner draws Con­
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              tempt, than any Thing handſome or well
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              finiſh'd does Commendation. </s>
              <s>It is really won­
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              derful, how, by a Kind of natural Inſtinct, all
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              of us knowing or ignorant, immediately hit upon
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              what is right or wrong in the Contrivance or
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              Execution of Things, and what a ſhrewd Judg­
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              ment the Eye has in Works of this Nature
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              above all the other Senſes. </s>
              <s>Whence it happens,
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              that if any Thing offers itſelf to us that is
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              lame or too little, or unneceſſary, or un­
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              graceful, we preſently find ourſelves moved
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              and deſirous to have it handſomer. </s>
              <s>The Rea­
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              ſons of thoſe Faults perhaps we may not all of
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              us be acquainted with, and yet if we were to </s>
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