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7I mention these things, not to induce persons to change the names at this period, but that they may be known to philologists. I have explained the different arrangement of buildings after the practice of the Italians, as well as that of the Greeks, by giving the proportions and divisions of each; and, as we have already laid down the principles of beauty and propriety, we shall now consider the subject of strength, by which a building may be without defects, and durable.
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