. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 206 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [JuNE' ofi'er anytliint; woitliy to serve as a model; while modern imitations ol them merely "give iis the nncontlmess of taste they display, without any of the rounterhalancing reconmiendation they possess. By no pos- sibility can any reminiscences of other days he made to attach to a "spick-and-span " new edifice, any more than a lineage from the con- quest can be bestowed upon a new-made city knight, who perhap
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 206 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [JuNE' ofi'er anytliint; woitliy to serve as a model; while modern imitations ol them merely "give iis the nncontlmess of taste they display, without any of the rounterhalancing reconmiendation they possess. By no pos- sibility can any reminiscences of other days he made to attach to a "spick-and-span " new edifice, any more than a lineage from the con- quest can be bestowed upon a new-made city knight, who perhaps does not know, or does not care to know, who was his grandfather. What may be venerable in an old country church either for the his- torical evidence it att'ords, or as belonging to the most ancient part of tlie structure, may possibly become barbarously mean when copied in a modern one. Few things are more disgusting in architecture than the atl'ectution of simplicity,—than a spruce, pert-looking ediKce, imper- tinently aping the unassuming modesty and humility of a primitive place of devotion. ON CHALK EXCAVATIONS. BY SAMUEL HUGHES, Fig. 1. Elevation nf BriJi^e—Seetinn of Rriilge. Fig. 2 Finn of Abiitnienf. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London : [William Laxton]
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