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Gentleman's Magazine 1839 part 1 p.387
ecclesiastical architecture the nomenclature of Rickman will
necessarily be adopted.
Mr. Rickman has excluded military structures almost, if not
altogether, from his valuable work; but his rules may
nevertheless be applied to the determination of their date
in almost every case with success; since the architecture of
different periods differs not less in the distribution and
fashion of the ornaments, than in the arrangement and
proportion of the parts.
We are not aware of any instance of Guide-book in which we
can seek for an illustration of what has been advanced; but
if the reader will turn over half a dozen pages of any one
of these performances that may be within his reach, he will
find ample instances of the errors to which we have been
objecting.
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