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 builds a magnificent Temple, or a noble Palace, that shall answer all those Ends for which such Structures are designed. That the chief Reason why the Doric, the Ionic, or the Corinthian Models have pleased so much, is, partly because the Eye has been long accustomed to them, and partly because they have been made use of by Men who understood and followed those other Rules which will eternally please, upon the Score of real Usefulness; whereas the Five Orders owe their Authority to Custom, rather than to Nature. That these Universal Rules are; To make those Buildings which will bear it, lofty and wide: In Stone-work, to use the largest, the smoothest, and the evenest Stones: To make the Joints almost imperceptible: To place the perpendicular Parts of the Work exactly Perpendicular, and the Horizontal Parts exactly Horizontal: To support the weak Parts of the Work by the strong: to cut Square Figures perfectly Square, and Round Figures perfectly Round: To hew the whole exactly true; and to fix all the Corners of the Work evenly, as they ought to be. That these Rules, well observed, will always please even those who never understood one