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44 certainly very good, but they understand not the Rules of Architecture so well, as to form them into just and masterly Proportions any more: And yet how beautiful would they stand in another Model upon another Plan!

For, my Lord, we must confess the Truth: We can say nothing New, at least we can say nothing Better, than hath been said before; but we may nevertheless make what we say our Own. And this is done, when we do not trouble ourselves to remember in what Page, or what Book we have read such a Passage; but it falleth in naturally with the Rh