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 880 COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE. for such and such things in the models which they take for imitation, we consider thai it shows a want of comprehensive views, and indicates that man is a slave of his profes- sion, rather than the master of it. It is, however, proper to ohserve that the object of the Architect may be, to produce such an imitation as may actually be mistaken for the thing imitated. For example, Mr. Cleland may wish his villa to be taken for a real old Scotch house ; in which case nothing that is not generally found in such houses should be introduced. Tliis, however, is a low style of art, and is to original composition in Architecture what portrait painting is to historical painting ; drawing from an individual instead of from the species. Any builder may copy a style, but it requires an Architect to compose in it. One reason why churches afford so little pleasure as archi- tectural compositions, in proportion to their great cost, is, that they are, for the most part, fac similes of one another ; or, at any rate, that they are more so than any other class of buildings, public or private, whatsoever. Fl. 10 S I ' I I. I. . 1 . 1