The Critical review Author:Tobias George Smollett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TKefe two points then, not being in this coimtry, united in one aft, but each Handing upon a different ground - our mutiny bill became nothing more than a law o... more »f regulation, and therefore it was not thought icquifite to limit it,' Through the whole inveftigation of thofe queftions, the aifrhor difcovers ingenuity, and enforces his conclufions with fuch a difpaflionate ftrain of argument, that, if it cannot con- tince the partizans who have efpoufed the oppofite opinions, it muft at leaft conduce to abate the vehemence, with which thofe political fubjefts have lately been agitated. A Proportion for a New Order in Architeflure, tuitb Rules for Drawing the feiieral Parts. By Henry Emlyn, of Windfor. Folio. I/. Is. half bound. Dixwell. OINCE the revival of the arts, feveral attempts have been made in books, and many more in buildings, to introduce into architecture a fixth order. The French and Germans have particularly laboured this problem ; the former with all the frippery, and the latter with all the heavinefs, of their re- fpeftive national character. But to form a clear idea of this fubjeft, it is neceflary to take a general view of the progrefs of architecture. The art of architecture appears to have had its origin in Egypt, which not only invented, but fpread over all the Eaft, a fpecies of order, or ftyle of building, peculiar to itfelf. Hence the temples, or parts of them, half buried in the fands of Upper Egypt, have fo remarkable a fimilarity to all the great ancient buildings of Perfia, Hindoftan, and the other Oriental countries, even fo far as China. As the inventions and learning of Egypt travelkd eaftward, thofe of Greece have overfpread the weftern and northern parts of the world. The moft ancient Grecian order was a fimple cot of a tree, hooped at both ...« less