The Architectural magazine . vention of the Composite order, which attains no increasedgradation of lightness beyond the Corinthian, of which it is butan inferior modification. Certain it is, that, if the two additionalRoman orders are deserving of their separate distinction besidethe three of Grecian origin, nothing can be advanced more con-temptibly futile and absurd than the vulgar assertion, that allthe combined taste of modern times has been and must beinadequate to the production of a sixth order. To those whorepeat such unfounded statements we would simply reply, thatthere is scarcely a
The Architectural magazine . vention of the Composite order, which attains no increasedgradation of lightness beyond the Corinthian, of which it is butan inferior modification. Certain it is, that, if the two additionalRoman orders are deserving of their separate distinction besidethe three of Grecian origin, nothing can be advanced more con-temptibly futile and absurd than the vulgar assertion, that allthe combined taste of modern times has been and must beinadequate to the production of a sixth order. To those whorepeat such unfounded statements we would simply reply, thatthere is scarcely an old Norman doorway in any of our churchesthat would not furnish a capital for a new order, which shouldpossess far more originality than can be claimed either for theTuscan or the Composite. Having thus arrived at that period when the architecture ofthe ancient world had attained its consummation of magnificence,we shall, upon a review of its progress from the earliest times, 30 Extent to xv/iich the elementary Forms of 14. V ^ E £ V discern in all its expression of one object,that of the support of a hori-zontal mass of covering orentablature, by the use, first ofcolumns, and afterwards ofcolumns in frequent connec-tion with arches. The sup-port of the entablature was theend in view; the use of co-lumns or of arches, the meansby which that end was this view of the sub-ject, therefore, the entablaturewould seem to have been con-stituted the most important ofthe component masses of Ar-chitecture ; and such, indeed,it is, however accustomed menmay be to classify orders by aregard to the style of ornamentdisplayed in their the entablature is fre-quently seen to extend itselfover long piles of building,which have scarcely any ofcolumnar decoration ; and it is,indeed, under a compressedform, susceptible of applicationaltogether independently of theuse of the column, though thelatter can never, with pro-priety, stand independent ofthe for
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